Antenna mask design for SAR performance optimization

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 443-447

  Kim, Se Young ^a   Myung, Noh Hoon ^a   Kang, Min Jeong ^b  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Network Infra Laboratory   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Active phased array synthetic aperture radar; Antenna mask; Noise equivalent sigma zero (NESZ); Particle swarm optimization (PSO); Range to ambiguity ratio (RAR)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY; ACTIVE PHASED ARRAY SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; ANTENNA PATTERN; ANTENNA RADIATION PATTERNS; ANTENNA SIDELOBES; HILL CLIMBING; MASK DESIGN; MASK TEMPLATES; NOISE-EQUIVALENT SIGMA ZERO (NESZ); PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATIONS; RADIOMETRIC ACCURACY; RANGE-TO-AMBIGUITY RATIO (RAR); SIDE LOBES; SIDELOBE LEVELS; SWATH WIDTH; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE MEASURES; SYSTEM SENSITIVITY;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 67651149509     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2016356     Document Type: Article

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