• DocumentCode
    2094853
  • Title

    An evaluation of performance parameters of reconfigurable SAR systems

  • Author

    Younis, M. ; Fischer, C. ; Wiesbeck, W.

  • Author_Institution
    Insitut fur Hochstfrequenztechnik und Elektron., Karlsruhe Univ., Germany
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    677
  • Abstract
    The rapid progression in digital hardware systems and signal processing capabilities is increasingly advantageous for the development of radar systems. The trend is to move the digital hardware towards the antenna front-end replacing, whenever possible, RF-hardware. Based on software codes these digital systems are more flexible and easier to reconfigure than RF-hardware. This paper investigates capabilities and limitations of synthetic aperture radar systems utilising digital beamforming.
  • Keywords
    antenna radiation patterns; radar antennas; radar signal processing; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; RF-hardware; antenna front-end; digital hardware systems; performance parameters; reconfigurable SAR systems; signal processing capabilities; software codes; synthetic aperture radar digital beamforming; Array signal processing; Azimuth; Hardware; High power amplifiers; Phased arrays; Radar antennas; Radar signal processing; Receiving antennas; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitting antennas;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2002. IGARSS '02. 2002 IEEE International
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7536-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1025143
  • Filename
    1025143