Near-space vehicle-borne SAR with reflector antenna for high-resolution and wide-swath remote sensing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 338-348

  Wang, Wen Qin ^a  

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

Author keywords

Digital beamforming(DBF); high resolution and wide swath (HRWS); near space; near space vehicle; reflector antenna; scan on receive (SCORE); synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; HIGH RESOLUTION; NEAR-SPACE; NEAR-SPACE VEHICLES; REFLECTOR ANTENNAS; SCAN-ON-RECEIVE (SCORE);

BEAMFORMING; EARTH (PLANET); ECHO SUPPRESSION; ORBITS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VEHICLES;

SPACE OPTICS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTENNA; DIGITAL IMAGE; ECHO SOUNDING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NADIR; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84856353301     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2158224     Document Type: Article

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