Advances in Radio Science Analysis Method of Errors (Motion and Atmospheric) in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Images

Abstract. A method to allow the analysis of the effects of motion and atmospheric errors in SAR images is here pre-sented. The objective of the method is to allow the visual-ization of the effects of motion errors and atmospheric arte-facts on the processed (focused) SAR image. The method is intended to allow the analysis of the interaction of mo-tion and atmospheric errors with the adopted SAR process-ing procedure and motion compensation algorithms. In this article the analysis method has been applied and tested to a C-Band E-SAR (DLR airborne SAR system) data set where we see that the effects of linear and non-linear phase errors observed are in agreement with the theory.