Measurements of in-flight cross-track antenna patterns of radar depth sounder/imager

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5669-5678

  Yan, Jie Bang ^a   Li, Jilu ^a   Rodriguez Morales, Fernando ^a   Crowe, Reid ^a   Gomez Garcia, Daniel ^a   Arnold, Emily J ^a   Paden, John ^a   Leuschen, Carl J ^a   Gogineni, Sivaprasad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne radar; antenna arrays; radiation pattern measurement

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE ANTENNA; AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS; AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; AIRBORNE RADARS; AIRCRAFT STRUCTURE; COMPUTER MODELS; DATA SAMPLE; DEPTH SOUNDERS; GROUND PLANES; ICE SHEET; ICE SURFACES; LARGE ARRAYS; PATTERN CHARACTERISTIC; PATTERN DATUM; POLAR ICE SHEETS; PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; RADAR SIGNALS; RADIATION PATTERN MEASUREMENTS; SIDE LOBES; SIMULATED RESULTS; SURFACE CLUTTER; VERY HIGH FREQUENCY;

AIRCRAFT MANUFACTURE; AIRFRAMES; ANTENNA ARRAYS; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ICE; OPTIMIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRACKING (POSITION);

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 84870947765     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2012.2211327     Document Type: Article

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