High performance reflector-based Synthetic Aperture Radar - A system performance analysis

4th Microwave and Radar Week MRW-2010 - 11th International Radar Symposium, IRS 2010 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 69-72

  Younis, Marwan ^a   Patyuchenko, Anton ^a   Huber, Sigurd ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION AREA; DEPLOYABLE REFLECTORS; FEED-ARRAYS; NEW SYSTEM; NEXT GENERATION SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION; SAR SYSTEM; SPACE AGENCY; SPACEBORNE SAR; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR ASTRONOMY; REFLECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77956608203     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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