Antenna system for a forward looking SAR using digital beamforming on-receive-only

Author

Younis, Marwan ; Wiesbeck, Werner

Author_Institution

Inst. fur Hochstfrequenztech. und Elektronik, Karlsruhe, Germany

Volume

5

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

2343

Abstract

This paper presents the development of an antenna system for a forward looking synthetic aperture radar (SAR) which uses digital beamforming (DBF) on-receive-only. One transmitting horn antenna is used in conjunction with 56 receiving patch subarrays all covering the same swath. The receiving antennas are sequentially switched which enables the antenna system to be operated by a conventional SAR receiver. The antenna system was built under contract from the DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Keywords

antenna arrays; geophysical equipment; geophysical techniques; radar antennas; receiving antennas; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; SAR; antenna array; digital beamforming; equipment; forward looking SAR; geophysical measurement technique; instrument; land surface; on-receive-only; radar antenna; radar remote sensing; receiving patch subarray; synthetic aperture radar; terrain mapping; transmitting horn antenna; Aperture antennas; Azimuth; Forward contracts; Helicopters; History; Horn antennas; Radar antennas; Receiving antennas; Synthetic aperture radar; Transmitting antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2000. Proceedings. IGARSS 2000. IEEE 2000 International

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6359-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2000.858403

Filename

858403