Inhalt

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   Abstract/Kurzfassung
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   Table of content
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   Abbreviations
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   Notations
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   1 Introduction, Overview and Structure of the Document
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  2 Conventional Monostatic SAR and Bistatic SAR, Experiments and Upcoming Missions
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   2.1 Conventional Monostatic SAR
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   2.2 Benefits of Bistatic and Multistatic SAR in Comparison withMonostatic SAR
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   2.3 Classification of Bistatic Configurations
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   2.4 Upcoming Bistatic Constellations
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   2.5 Bistatic Processing
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  3 Point Target Reference Spectrum for Bistatic Configurations
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   3.1 Modeling the Bistatic Geometry
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   3.2 Point Target Response
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   3.3 Point Target Spectrum
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   3.4 Bistatic Point Target Reference Spectrum
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   3.5 Quasi-Monostatic Phase Term
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   3.6 Bistatic Deformation Term
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   3.7 Common Bistatic Point of Stationary Phase
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   3.8 Bistatic Amplitude Term
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   3.9 Result and Summary
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  4 Interpretation of the Bistatic Point Target Reference Spectrum for Different Configurations
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   4.1 General Case
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   4.2 Bistatic Doppler Bandwidth and Doppler Centroid
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   4.3 Particular Cases of the Bistatic Point Target Reference Spectrum
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  5 Constraints of Validity
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   5.1 Strong Terms of Validity
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   5.2 Derivatives of the Slant Range at the Point of Stationary Phase
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   5.3 Derivation of Constraints
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   5.4 Constraints Expressed in Bistatic Parameters and Bandwidths
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   5.5 Interpreting the Bistatic Constraints
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   5.6 Numerical Values of the Bistatic Constraints for Different Simulations
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  6 Checking the Validity of the Bistatic Point Target Reference Spectrum by Simulations
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   6.1 Checking the Validity for Single Point Target
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   6.2 Focusing Groups of Point Targets with the Bistatic Point Target Reference Spectrum
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  7 Extension to Focusing of Complete Scenes
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   7.1 Monostatic Focusing Approach
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   7.2 Monostatic Point Target Reference Spectrum
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   7.3 Spectrum of the Complete Scene
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   7.4 First Compression Transfer Function
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   7.5 Statement of the Nonlinear Frequency Scaling Problem
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   7.6 Scaled Spectrum
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   7.7 Inverse Scaled Fourier Transformation
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   7.8 Approximation of the Scaled Range Frequency Term
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   7.9 Compensation of the Initial Time Delay
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   7.10 Transformation into the Range Distance Domain
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   7.11 Representation of the Complete Processor
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   7.12 Inverse Scaling Approach - from Continuous to Discrete Implementation
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   7.13 Chirp Scaling Algorithm
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  8 Processing for different Bistatic SAR Configurations
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   8.1 Aim of the Bistatic Processing
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   8.2 Tandem Configuration
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   8.3 Translationally Invariant Configuration
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   8.4 Focusing for General Case
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  9 Processing Quality Measurements
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   9.1 Directions of the Azimuth and the Range Lines
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   9.2 The Range and the Azimuth Lines in our Bistatic Processing
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   9.3 SAR Image Quality Measurements Based on Simulations
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  10 2D-Inverse Scaled Fourier Transformation for Bistatic SAR
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   10.1 Focusing and Inverse Scaled Fourier Transformation
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   10.2 Complex Quadratic Forms and Chirps
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   10.3 Implementation and Results
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   11 Results and Summary
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  Appendix
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   A Method of the Stationary Phase
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   B Chirp Scaling Algorithm
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   C Radon Transformation
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   References