On-Site Response Tracking for WISDOM System
Abstract
The WISDOM ground penetrating radar aboard the Rosalind Franklin rover is waiting for its intended launch in 2028 within the ExoMars mission. It will search for Water, Ice, and Subsurface Deposit On Mars (WISDOM) to enhance the knowledge of Oxia Planum on Mars. Meanwhile, the WISDOM team is improving the signal processing, since in general the microwave scattering in the sensing channel is a very complex phenomenon [1]. It is mainly determined by the property of transceiver system (radar), of the wireless channel in the random media and the property of the targets to explore. Regarding the target property, it can be divided into two main factors, namely the geometry/shape and the material properties (frequency-dependent relative permittivity). In practice however, due to the high complexity and sensibility of the random scattering signal tracking and separating of these responses is a challenging task by pre-calibration such that it can deteriorate e.g. the subspace image analysis. With radar systems such as WISDOM, which have a distance of up to several wavelengths between the antenna and the ground, there is furthermore an influence from the environment on the radar coupling, which results in an unknown signal. A reasonable tracking/estimation, especially on-site calibration, of these random signal plays then a major role for the radar technologies in practice and will be outlined in this paper.
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