A TOPSAR Calibration Method For Processing System Of GF3 Next Generation

TOPSAR is an earth-imaging technique, which can provide wide swath coverage. The paper introduces a TOPSAR focusing and calibrating experiment based on the TOPSAR data acquired by Gaofen3(GF3). In this paper, we firstly derive the processor calibration factors under the demands of keeping signal energy invariant. After that, we fully analyze the impact of antenna electronic steering on TOPSAR products. Aimed to be applied to TOPSAR mode processing system of a SAR satellite, the next generation of GF3, calibration methods to processor and electronic steering was proposed in this paper.