An efficient method for performance monitoring of active phased array antennas

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1236-1243

  Brautigam, Benjamin ^a   Schwerdt, Marco ^a   Bachmann, Markus ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active phased array antenna; Internal calibration; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); TerraSAR X; Transmit receive modules (TRMs)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; POWER CONVERTERS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY ANTENNA; ACTIVE PHASED ARRAYS; ANTENNA BEAMS; ANTENNA PERFORMANCE; CODING TECHNIQUES; EFFICIENT METHODS; ELECTRONIC BEAM STEERING; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; INTERNAL CALIBRATION; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PERFORMANCE MONITORING; POWER SUPPLIES; PRECISE MODELING; PSEUDO NOISE; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SPACEBORNE SAR; TERRASAR-X; TRANSMIT/RECEIVE MODULES (TRMS);

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS;

ANTENNA; AZIMUTH; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 63149172081     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2008719     Document Type: Article

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