On the Minimum Number of Tracks for SAR Tomography

The main drawback of SAR Tomography (SARTom) is the considerable number of tracks required to achieve the 3-dimensional (3D) representation of a viewed scene. The key point concerns the trade-off between the vertical resolution and the control on ambiguities phenomena. This paper deals with the problem of the determination of the minimum number of required tracks when super-resolution subspace methods are applied. The results are validated on real data acquired in L-band by the E-SAR system of the German Aerospace Centre.