The invention discloses a main and auxiliary
satellite distributed SAR detection integrated imaging
satellite system. The invention can be used to realize high-resolution SAR imaging, high-precision interferometric SAR height measurement and three-dimensional tomographic SAR imaging. The main and auxiliary
satellite distributed SAR detection integrated imaging
satellite system utilizes a one-output multi-input or multi-output multi-input work
system, and provides 1+N
observation data at the same time to strengthen the correlation of the data, so that the
imaging data is acquired more efficientand effective; meanwhile, by locating the main satellites at the center, and making the auxiliary satellites fly along with a configured co-
orbital plane of the Carwheel wheel trajectory, short baselines that satisfy the optimal vertical effective baseline requirements and are formed between the main and auxiliary satellites and long baselines that are formed between the auxiliary satellites andcan guide the short baselines to perform relevant interference
processing exist at any time throughout the entire
orbital period, which improves the
system efficiency and the interferometric height
measurement precision; and the wheel trajectory of the auxiliary satellites changes in the
orbit by the
orbit changing technique. Therefore, the main and auxiliary satellite distributed SAR detection integrated imaging
satellite system has more compact configuration, and forms a spatial virtual
large aperture, which is advantageous for using the sparse aperture
algorithm for imaging of higher resolution.