Individual T/R module characterisation of the TerraSAR-X active phased array antenna by calibration pulse sequences with orthogonal codes

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 5202-5205

  Bräutigam, Benjamin ^a   Schwerdt, Marco ^a   Bachmann, Markus ^a   Stangl, Martin ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERING; INTERNAL CALIBRATION; ORTHOGONAL CODES; RECEIVE MODULES;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADAR ANTENNAS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 63149176745     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4424034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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