Near-space wide-swath radar imaging with multiaperture antenna

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages 461-464

  Wang, Wen Qin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Digital beamforming; Maneuvering vehicle; Multiaperture antenna; Near space; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Wide swath imaging

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; MANEUVERING VEHICLES; MULTI APERTURE; NEAR-SPACE; WIDE-SWATH IMAGING; MANEUVERING VEHICLE;

BEAMFORMING; EARTH (PLANET); IMAGING SYSTEMS; MANEUVERABILITY; MECHANICS; ORBITS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77956192641     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2009.2016584     Document Type: Article

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