학술논문

Far-Field Inversion for the Deep Interior Scanning CubeSat
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst. Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 55(4):1683-1697 Aug, 2019
Subject
Aerospace
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Radar
Extraterrestrial measurements
Cathode ray tubes
Frequency measurement
Space vehicles
Computed radar tomography (CRT)
far-field measurements
inverse imaging
near-earth asteroids (NEAs)
small solar system bodies (SSSBs)
Language
ISSN
0018-9251
1557-9603
2371-9877
Abstract
This study aims at advancing mathematical and computational techniques for reconstructing the interior structure of a small solar system body via computed radar tomography (CRT). We introduce a far-field model for full-wave CRT and validate it numerically for an orbiting distance of 5 km using a synthetic three-dimensional target asteroid and sparse limited-angle data. As a potential future application of the proposed method, we consider the deep interior scanning CubeSat concept in which the goal is to localize macroporosities inside a rubble-pile near-earth asteroid with two small spacecraft carrying a bistatic radar.