频率源相位误差作为合成孔径雷达(synthetic aperture radar,SAR)系统的一种时间去相干因素,对不同 SAR 系统的成像性能影响不同。对于低轨单基 SAR 系统,频率源相位误差通常可以忽略。而地球同步轨道(geosynchronous earth orbit,GEO)SAR 系统具有更长的脉冲时延和合成孔径时间,此时频率源相位误差对成像性能的影响将不能被忽略。本文分析了频率源相位误差对 GEO SAR 系统成像性能的影响,并据此给出了GEO SAR 系统对频率源相位特性的要求。
The oscillator phase error,as one of the decorrelation factors for the synthetic aperture radar (SAR)systems,has different impacts on different SAR systems.The impacts of oscillator phase errors are neg-ligible for the low-orbit monostatic SAR system.However,due to the long time delay of pulse return and long synthetic aperture time,the image quality of geosynchronous earth orbit (GEO)SAR suffers from the degrada-tion caused by the oscillator phase error.The impacts of the oscillator phase error on the GEO SAR imaging performance are investigated.Furthermore,the constraints on the oscillator phase stability are given to guaran-tee the GEO SAR image quality.