First demonstration of an X-band airborne FMCW SAR
Konferenz: EUSAR 2006 - 6th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
16.05.2006 - 18.05.2006 in Dresden, Germany
Tagungsband: EUSAR 2006
Seiten: 4Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF
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Autoren:
Meta, Adriano; Hakkaart, Paul; Zwan, Fred van der; Hoogeboom, Peter; Ligthart, Leo P. (International Research Centre for Telecommunication-transmission and Radar, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Inhalt:
At the Delft University of Technology, an X-band airborne FMCW SAR demonstrator system has been designed and developed. The combination of Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) technology and Synthetic Aperture Technique (SAR) has led to a compact, low power consuming imaging system with high resolution. The system has been extensively tested with laboratory, ground based measurements and finally during a flight test campaign organized in the last part of 2005. Thanks to the special algorithms developed at the TU Delft, FMCW SAR images with a resolution up to 30 cm were produced. The paper reports on the front-end implementation and the flight test results.