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SAR Antenna Pointing Determination: Results from the Sentinel-1B Commissioning Phase and novel approaches

Klenk, Patrick und Reimann, Jens und Schwerdt, Marco und Zink, Manfred (2017) SAR Antenna Pointing Determination: Results from the Sentinel-1B Commissioning Phase and novel approaches. EO Summit 2017, 2017-06-19 - 2017-06-23, Montreal, Canada.

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Antenna pointing calibration is a major task for ensuring a correctly aligned SAR antenna radiation pattern. This combines both the accurate control and measurement of the attitude of the satellite as well as the electronic adjustment of the SAR antenna. For upcoming SAR missions, which use a reflector antenna design like ESA's BIOMASS or DLR's Tandem-L, the antenna pointing may no longer be fixed to the attitude of the satellite bus. Due to small deformations of the reflector or the boom, the antenna pointing may vary (i) over orbit, (ii) over season and (iii) due to aging. In such a case, novel approaches are required to ensure a continuous monitoring of the correct antenna pointing over non-homogeneous distributed targets. For the commissioning phases of Sentinel-1 A & B, the procedure of determining the antenna pointing was divided into two parts: (i) azimuth antenna pointing and (ii) elevation antenna pointing. Both cases rely on different measurement approaches. Antenna azimuth pointing determination has been based on ground receiver measurements of azimuth notch transmit patterns while antenna elevation was based on rainforest measurements of elevation notch patterns. For the innovative TOPS mode ("Terrain Observation by Progressive azimuth Scans") of Sentinel-1, where the azimuth beams are steered from aft to fore, antenna patterns are compressed due to this steering. For this TOPS mode of Sentinel-1, practically each pulse is commanded with a different azimuth beam, using a very fine granularity in azimuth steering, with a total of around 800 steered azimuth beams per burst and with up to 5 subswaths. A precise prediction of this compressed azimuth pattern from the antenna model takes into account (i) the accurate knowledge of the imaging geometry (ii) the antenna excitation coefficients, and (iii) a precise knowledge of the right sequence of steered azimuth beams and scanned elevation beams together with the correct timing synchronization of the data. In principle, referencing modeled and measured TOPS patterns at one mainlobe, the mismatch of the position of the other mainlobes can be used for achieving a pointing characterization over the whole range of swaths covered by this TOPS datatake. In this presentation, we first discuss the pointing accuracy achieved both in azimuth and elevation during the S1B commissioning phase. We then investigate the usability of measured TOPS azimuth-patterns to facilitate the determination of the variation of the azimuth mispointing over elevation. Finally, we present a new approach using a combination of notch and regular beams which has been developed and tested using the aperture switching capability of the TerraSAR-X satellite. It allows the determination of the antenna elevation pointing even outside homogeneous distributed targets like the Amazon Rainforest.

elib-URL des Eintrags:https://elib.dlr.de/111828/
Dokumentart:Konferenzbeitrag (Vortrag)
Titel:SAR Antenna Pointing Determination: Results from the Sentinel-1B Commissioning Phase and novel approaches
Autoren:
AutorenInstitution oder E-Mail-AdresseAutoren-ORCID-iDORCID Put Code
Klenk, PatrickNICHT SPEZIFIZIERThttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8284-2265NICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Reimann, JensNICHT SPEZIFIZIERThttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0650-9073NICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Schwerdt, MarcoNICHT SPEZIFIZIERThttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0045-3726NICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Zink, ManfredNICHT SPEZIFIZIERThttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4308-5636NICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Datum:Juni 2017
Referierte Publikation:Nein
Open Access:Nein
Gold Open Access:Nein
In SCOPUS:Nein
In ISI Web of Science:Nein
Status:veröffentlicht
Stichwörter:antenna pointing, Sentinel, TOPS, calibration, notch pattern
Veranstaltungstitel:EO Summit 2017
Veranstaltungsort:Montreal, Canada
Veranstaltungsart:internationale Konferenz
Veranstaltungsbeginn:19 Juni 2017
Veranstaltungsende:23 Juni 2017
Veranstalter :Canadian Space Agency
HGF - Forschungsbereich:Luftfahrt, Raumfahrt und Verkehr
HGF - Programm:Raumfahrt
HGF - Programmthema:Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Schwerpunkt:Raumfahrt
DLR - Forschungsgebiet:R EO - Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Teilgebiet (Projekt, Vorhaben):R - SAR-Expert-Support-Lab
Standort: Oberpfaffenhofen
Institute & Einrichtungen:Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Radarsysteme > Satelliten-SAR-Systeme
Hinterlegt von: Klenk, Dr. Patrick
Hinterlegt am:10 Apr 2017 14:51
Letzte Änderung:24 Apr 2024 20:16

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