1. Long-baseline multistatic and bistatic SAR products: Application to the RODiO mission.
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Gigantino, Antonio, Renga, Alfredo, Graziano, Maria Daniela, Abbundo, Chiara, Ravellino, Fabiana, Moccia, Antonio, di Martire, Diego, Khalili, Mohammad Amin, Ramondini, Massimo, Pisacane, Valerio, Lambitelli, Giovanni, Aurigemma, Renato, Fedele, Alberto, Luciani, Roberto, Tataranni, Francesco, Martucci, Vincenzo, and Natalucci, Silvia
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SYNTHETIC aperture radar , *MICROWAVE imaging , *SYNTHETIC apertures , *GROUND motion , *DIGITAL elevation models , *BISTATIC radar - Abstract
In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) missions represent flight opportunities to acquire data on spacecraft and space environment and to demonstrate new techniques at system, subsystem, and payload level. Realizing this type of mission means accepting a greater level of risk. However, when very compact and relatively simple platforms like CubeSats are adopted, this becomes admissible since costs can be kept low. Distributed Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a novel Earth Observation (EO) technique for microwave imaging. It uses multiple cooperating receivers and suitable processing to enable performance and products that exceed those of the single components of the system. RODiO (Radar for earth Observation by synthetic aperture Distributed on a cluster of CubeSats equipped with high-technology micro-propellers for new Operative services) is an IOD of the distributed SAR concept. The mission is based on four, 16 U, CubeSats, that embark a receiving-only X-band SAR instrument able to collect bistatic echoes exploiting a monostatic SAR as an opportunity illuminator, i.e PLATiNO-1 mission. Distributed SAR demonstration is thus pursued in RODiO combining the principles of both multistatic and bistatic SAR. The paper, moving from mission goals, individuates different families of EO products that RODiO can demonstrate, e.g. in the contest of ground motion, digital elevation models, and ship detection. The main result is the definition of the RODiO system requirements for product generation that drive satellites and payload design. • RODiO is an IOD mission of DSAR principle based on four 16U CubeSat receivers. • The combination of mono and bistatic images enables the generation of new products. • These products provide advantages with respect to the monostatic-only counterparts. • Preliminary performance assessment of multi-baseline products is shown in the paper. • Requirements for product generation have been derived to drive RODiO design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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