Abstract
It is commonly known that the ionosphere has significant effects on a low-frequency (particularly P-band) radar signal. It causes the degradation of the image quality in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and inverse SAR (ISAR) imaging systems. In this letter, we analyze the ionospheric effects on radar signals and find that the total electron content (TEC) is a key to the ionospheric effects. A method is proposed to evaluate the TEC from a received ISAR signal and to correct the ionospheric effects. Some real experimental results, using a ground-based P-band ISAR system to observe a space target in the ionosphere, are used to validate the proposed method.
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