Ground processing of Cassini RADAR imagery of Titan

Stiles, Bryan W.; Gim, Yonggyu; Hamilton, Gary; Hensley, Scott; Johnson, William T. K.; Shimada, Joanne; West, Richard D.; Callahan, Phil

Ground processing of Cassini RADAR imagery of Titan

Stiles, Bryan W.; Gim, Yonggyu; Hamilton, Gary; Hensley, Scott; Johnson, William T. K.; Shimada, Joanne; West, Richard D.; Callahan, Phil

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/39212

Date: 2006-04-24

Keywords: radar; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); planetary science; Titan; remote sensing

Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2006.

Citation: IEEE Radar Conference, Verona, New York, April 24-27, 2006.

Abstract:

This paper describes the ground processing of Cassini SAR data. We focus upon the unusual features of the data and how these features impact the processing. We exhibit a data dependent mechanism we have implemented for eliminating artifacts due to attitude and ephemeris knowledge error. Finally we describe how we trade-off SAR performance vs. area of coverage when we design our spacecraft pointing profiles.

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