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Performance analysis of phase gradient autofocus for compensating ionospheric phase scintillation in BIOMASS P-band SAR data

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Performance analysis of phase gradient autofocus for compensating ionospheric phase scintillation in BIOMASS P-band SAR data. / Li, Zhuo; Quegan, Shaun; Chen, Jie et al.
In: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Vol. 12, No. 6, 06.2015, p. 1367-1371.

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Li, Z, Quegan, S, Chen, J & Rogers, N 2015, 'Performance analysis of phase gradient autofocus for compensating ionospheric phase scintillation in BIOMASS P-band SAR data', IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 12, no. 6, pp. 1367-1371. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2015.2402833

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Li, Z., Quegan, S., Chen, J., & Rogers, N. (2015). Performance analysis of phase gradient autofocus for compensating ionospheric phase scintillation in BIOMASS P-band SAR data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12(6), 1367-1371. https://doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2015.2402833

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Li Z, Quegan S, Chen J, Rogers N. Performance analysis of phase gradient autofocus for compensating ionospheric phase scintillation in BIOMASS P-band SAR data. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 2015 Jun;12(6):1367-1371. Epub 2015 Feb 24. doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2402833

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Li, Zhuo ; Quegan, Shaun ; Chen, Jie et al. / Performance analysis of phase gradient autofocus for compensating ionospheric phase scintillation in BIOMASS P-band SAR data. In: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. 2015 ; Vol. 12, No. 6. pp. 1367-1371.

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abstract = "The P-band synthetic aperture radar of the European Space Agency BIOMASS mission will be affected by ionospheric phase scintillation at high latitudes, which introduces a random high-order azimuth phase error. The dependence of the performance of the phase gradient autofocus (PGA) algorithm for scintillation compensation on the strength of ionospheric turbulence and the signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR) is analyzed. In order to keep resolution degradation below 2%, the SCR must exceed 16 and 20 dB for turbulence strengths CkL = 1033 and 1034, respectively. For large values of CkL, phase scintillation adds significantly to post-PGA degradation in the integrated and peak sidelobe ratios. Simulations based on scenes derived from PALSAR data demonstrate the effectiveness of PGA.",
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