Arc FMCW SAR and Applications in Ground Monitoring

As a novel mode of ground-based synthetic aperture radar (GB-SAR), Arc frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) SAR is rarely discussed in the literature up to now. Compared with the conventional rail GB-SAR system, the synthetic aperture is formed by the rotation of antennas, which can scan a wide azimuth extent. Due to its convenience and potential in SAR applications, the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy Sciences, carried out a series of Arc FMCW SAR experiments in March 2013, and a lot of results were obtained. In this paper, we discuss the signal processing of Arc FMCW SAR and its first results in change detection and interferometric SAR. The components of the Arc FMCW SAR system are first described, and then, we focus on its signal processing, where the signal model and its properties are investigated; two focusing algorithms are developed for different purposes. The effectiveness of the algorithms is validated by both simulation and real data experiments. We also exhibit the applications of Arc FMCW SAR in landslide detection and digital-elevation-model extraction for the first time. Results show its huge potential in ground-based applications.

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