Inflight antenna pattern measurement for bistatic synthetic aperture radar systems

IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages 432-435

  Wang, Wen Qin ^a  

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

Author keywords

Antenna direction; Bistatic radar; Calibration; Inflight antenna pattern; Synthetic aperture radar (sar)

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; ANTENNA DIRECTIONS; ANTENNA PATTERN; ANTENNA PATTERN MEASUREMENT; BACKSCATTER COEFFICIENTS; BISTATIC RADARS; BISTATIC SAR; BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; IMAGE PIXEL INTENSITIES; INFLIGHT ANTENNA PATTERN; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; VERY HIGH DYNAMIC RANGES;

CALIBRATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; SIGNAL ENCODING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSMITTERS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 77956208410     PISSN: 15361225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LAWP.2007.905013     Document Type: Article

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