Packaging and deployment strategies for synthetic aperture radar membrane antenna arrays

2014 31th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, URSI GASS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Lee, Nicolas ^a   Pellegrino, Sergio ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; RADAR ANTENNAS; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

AREAL DENSITIES; DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY; RADIATING ELEMENTS; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84919742474     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/URSIGASS.2014.6929611     Document Type: Conference Paper

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