Performance Characteristics of Different Two-channel Gmti Detectors

With the amount of traffic increasing steadily, traffic monitoring has evolved to an important topic of research. Most of the conventional systems for traffic monitoring lack of spatial extent. Hence traffic monitoring from space provides an attractive alternative to supplement existing systems. The upcoming TerraSAR-X Mission with its experimental dual-receive mode will contribute to this research topic. To have an estimate on the performance of traffic monitoring achievable, simulations with respect to the TerraSAR-X instrument specifications were conducted. Simulation methods and results are presented. To complement simulations with results from SAR-Data a prototype traffic-processor is introduced and first results are shown.