Recent Progress of Airborne X-band SAR with Two-Dimensional Digital Beamforming
Conference: EUSAR 2016 - 11th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
06/06/2016 - 06/09/2016 at Hamburg, Germany
Proceedings: EUSAR 2016
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Wang, Robert; Deng, Yunkai; Wang, Pei (Space Microwave Remote Sensing System Department, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IECAS), Beisihuanxilu No.19, Haidianqu, 100190 Beijing, China)
Abstract:
An advanced X-band airborne SAR with two-dimensional Digital Beamforming (DBF) is being developed, which consists of 64 channels split into 4 column in azimuth and 16 rows in elevation. This airborne experiment system with a large value memory and onboard processor serves as a test bed for the development, implementation and testing of digital beamforming techniques for future High-Resolution Wide-Swath (HRWS) SAR instruments. In the current manuscript, we will present the set up and functions of this experiment system. Additionally, some preliminary experimental results for one dimensional DBF are given.