Analysis of Phase Synchronization Errors Based on Distributed Small Satellite SAR System

Phase synchronization between transmitters and receivers caused by the separation between transmitters and receivers is a key technique to distributed small satellite SAR (DSS-SAR) systems. The effects of phase synchronization errors on pulse compression and imaging will be analyzed in this paper and it is validated by the computer simulation, thus provides the bases for the parameters setting and phase compensation on the theory.

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