Spaceborne reflector SAR systems with digital beamforming

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3473-3493

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

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG BEAMFORMING; CONCEPT STUDIES; DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; DIGITAL COMPONENTS; FEED-ARRAYS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; PLANAR-ARRAY ANTENNAS; RADAR SATELLITES; SAR SYSTEM; SPACE-BORNE; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; SWATH WIDTH;

BEAMFORMING; HARDWARE; PARABOLIC ANTENNAS; RADAR ASTRONOMY; REFLECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 84867556647     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2012.6324728     Document Type: Article

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