The "Myth" of the minimum SAR antenna area constraint

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 1 I, 2000, Pages 320-324

  Freeman, A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antenna area; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ANTENNA AREA CONSTRAINT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0033893303     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.823926     Document Type: Article

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