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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Haynes, Mark S.
• Chapin, Elaine
• Moussessian, Alina
• Madsen, Soren N.

Titel

Surface Clutter Discrimination Analysis for Radar Sounding Interferometry

Ist Teil von

• IEEE transactions on aerospace and electronic systems, 2019-04, Vol.55 (2), p.989-1003

Ort / Verlag

New York: IEEE

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

• IEEE_Xplore

Quelle

IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper reports a method to analyze surface clutter discrimination for radar sounding interferometry. Nadir-looking low-frequency radar sounders cannot easily resolve off-nadir surface echoes from subsurface nadir echoes. Sounders equipped with multichannel receivers can use interferometric phase to discriminate whether a feature is at nadir or not. We developed a method to evaluate the performance of this application of interferometry and used it to analyze the selected Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON) instrument on NASA's Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon Europa.