Jan Krecke;Oliver Kim;Michelangelo Villano;Gerhard Krieger;Mohammed Dabboor;John E. Cater;Andrew C. M. Austin
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The performance tradeoffs required for a small satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system designed to measure surface deformations using persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) are investigated. Existing X-band satellite data is systematically deteriorated to account for the increased range resolution and noise-equivalent sigma zero (NESZ). It is found that with an NESZ below 0 dB, the deformation signal of a selected region of interest (ROI) can be captured with mean absolute errors of 5 and 15 mm, for ground range resolutions of 5 and 20 m, respectively. This analysis is used to develop preliminary SAR system designs suitable for small satellites.