Airborne Platform Three-Dimensional Positioning Method Based on Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferogram Matching

Autor: Lanyu Li, Yachao Wang, Bingnan Wang, Maosheng Xiang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
Předmět:
Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 16, Iss 9, p 1536 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs16091536
Popis: As the demand for precise navigation of aircraft increases in modern society, researching high-precision, high-autonomy navigation systems is both theoretically valuable and practically significant. Because the inertial navigation system (INS) has systematic and random errors, its output information diverges. Therefore, it is necessary to combine them with other navigation systems for real-time compensation and correction of these errors. The SAR matching positioning and navigation system uses synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image matching for platform positioning and compensates for the drift caused by errors in the inertial measurement unit (IMU). Images obtained by SAR are matched with digital landmark data, and the platform’s position is calculated based on the SAR imaging geometry. However, SAR matching positioning faces challenges due to seasonal variations in SAR images, the need for typical landmarks for matching, and the lack of elevation information in two-dimensional SAR image matching. This paper proposes an airborne platform positioning method based on interferometric SAR (InSAR) interferogram matching. InSAR interferograms contain terrain elevation information, are less affected by seasonal changes, and provide higher positioning accuracy and robustness. By matching real-time InSAR-processed interferograms with simulated interferograms using a digital elevation model (DEM), three-dimensional position information about the matching points has been obtained. Subsequently, a three-dimensional positioning model for the platform has bene established using the unit line-of-sight vector decomposition method. In actual flight experiments using an FMCW Ku-band Interferometric SAR system, the proposed platform positioning framework demonstrated its ability to achieve precise positioning in the absence of signals from the global navigation satellite system (GNSS).
Databáze: Directory of Open Access Journals
Nepřihlášeným uživatelům se plný text nezobrazuje