Title :
Antenna activities in support to future candidate earth explorer core missions with a SAR
Author :
v.´t Klooster, K. ; Hélière, Florence ; Lin, Chung-Chi
Author_Institution :
ESA Estec, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Abstract :
Three candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions have been selected for Phase-A study, namely BIOMASS, CoReH2O and PREMIER. Two of the candidates are Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) missions: BIOMASS operating in P-band and CoReH2O operating in × and Ku-band. Antenna development activities have been initiated to reduce technological risks and in support to Phase A studies. The paper describes the latest results from those activities.
Keywords :
Antenna arrays; Antenna feeds; Aperture antennas; Biomass; Earth; Planar arrays; Reflector antennas; Sea ice; Snow; Synthetic aperture radar; Array antenna; Feed Array; Reflector based SAR; SAR Antenna; Synthetic Aperture Radar;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Radar and Wireless Communications (MIKON), 2010 18th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vilnius, Lithuania
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5288-0
