2008 Volume 56 Issue 658 Pages 516-521
This paper describes optimal formation designing strategies for Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) missions with multiple satellites. The 1st report has presented the strategies disregarding satellites' relative motion. Alternatively, the 2nd report has taken into account the relative motion among satellites. Such relative motion includes elliptical rotating motion induced by the orbital motion of satellites, and circular rotating motion in centrifugal stabilized formations. The results of this study were intuitive: with either elliptical or circular rotational motion, all the satellites should be distributed equally with the same phase interval next to each other in order to make the height (3D) profile of an image most reliable.
