Research Article

A Bistatic Imaging Method for GEOSAR in the Strip Mode and UAVSAR in the Steering Beam Mode

Table 2

Simulation parameters.

ParameterValue

GEOSAR altitude36,000 km
Wavelength0.03 m (X-band)
Bandwidth80 MHz
Pulse duration20 μs
UAVSAR altitude8000 m
Antenna size of UAVSAR2 m
UAVSAR velocity200 m/s
Azimuth aperture angle in the case of the receiver’s spotlight mode12°
The beam velocity of UAVSAR in the sliding spotlight mode140 m/s
The beam velocity of UAVSAR in the TOPS mode270 m/s