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Smart antennas for space-borne synthetic aperture radars

Qin, F., Gao, S., Mao, C., Wang, Z., Patyuchenko, A., Younis, M., Krieger, G. (2015) Smart antennas for space-borne synthetic aperture radars. Applied Physics A, 121 . pp. 1045-1051. ISSN 0947-8396. (doi:10.1007/s00339-015-9125-0) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:50992)

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http://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-015-9125-0

Abstract

This paper discusses smart antennas for space-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). First, some recent development in smart antennas for space-borne SAR is reviewed. Then, the paper presents a low-cost space-borne SAR system using digital beam forming on receive. The smart antenna system is also discussed, and some results are shown. The antenna system, consisting of a parabolic reflector and multi-feed array, is designed and optimized for dual-band dual-polarized digital beam-forming performance. The operating frequencies are at X and Ka bands with the center frequency of 9.6 and 35.75 GHz, respectively. The stacked dipoles and square patches with parasitic elements are employed as the feed elements at X and Ka bands. Dual-band antenna arrays are combined in the same aperture, which not only reduce the aperture of the feed array, but also coincide the center of dual-band feed arrays.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1007/s00339-015-9125-0
Uncontrolled keywords: synthetic aperture radar; smart antenna; reflector system; parabolic reflector
Subjects: T Technology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Engineering and Digital Arts
Depositing User: Tina Thompson
Date Deposited: 14 Oct 2015 13:19 UTC
Last Modified: 17 Aug 2022 10:59 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/50992 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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