Equivalency of Multiple Beams and Multiple Phase Centres for Digital Beamforming SAR Systems
Conference: EUSAR 2014 - 10th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/03/2014 - 06/05/2014 at Berlin, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2014
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Bertl, Sebastian; Lopez-Dekker, Paco; Younis, Marwan; Krieger, Gerhard (German Aerospace Center, Germany)
Abstract:
In this paper the flexibility in modifying the resulting antenna characteristics in terms of location of phase centres and aperture widths, independent of the antenna type used by applying linear combinations of digital beams is discussed. Especially a parabolic reflector can be considered to have the same properties as a Direct Radiating Array (DRA) when used for SAR applications like along-track interferometry.