Precision Comparison and Airborne Experiment Validation between SAR Altimeter and Conventional Altimeter
LIU Peng①②③ XU Ke①② WANG Lei①② SHI Lingwei①② YU Xiufen①②
①(Key Laboratory of Microwave Remote Sensing, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China) ②(National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China) ③(University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China)
Synthetic Aperture Radar ALtimeter (SARAL) is a new generation radar altimeter and has the best height precision now. As using synthetic aperture technique, the height precision of SARAL is improved by one fold. Based on studying the height precision of Conventional Radar Altimeter (CRA) and SARAL, a novel comparison method is developed to process the airborne flight experiment data. And the precision comparison result shows that the height precision of SARAL is increased by one fold.
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LIU Peng, XU Ke, WANG Lei, SHI Lingwei, YU Xiufen. Precision Comparison and Airborne Experiment Validation between SAR Altimeter and Conventional Altimeter. JEIT, 2016, 38(10): 2495-2501.
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