Demonstration of Digital Beamforming in Elevation for Spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar

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; Wollstadt, Steffen; Krieger, Gerhard (German Aerospace Center, Germany)

Abstract:
In this paper different experiments conducted with the TerraSAR-X satellite for a demonstration of digital beamforming in elevation are shown for a spaceborne SAR system. Processing of the data and different options for digital beamforming are presented.