Developing SAR for small aircrafts in Ukraine

Author

Vavriv, Dmytro M. ; Bezvesilniy, Oleksandr O.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radio Astron., Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine, Kharkov, Ukraine

fYear

2011

fDate

5-10 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A review is given on the recent development of cost-effective SAR systems for small aircrafts in Ukraine. The costs have been substantially reduced due to the introduction of original software solutions. These solutions have enabled to simplify radically the navigation system and to produce geometrically correct SAR images. A technique for 3D imaging with a single-antenna, squint-mode SAR has also been proposed. The efficiency of the solutions has been confirmed with Ku- and X-band SAR systems.

Keywords

aircraft; aircraft antennas; radar antennas; radar imaging; spaceborne radar; synthetic aperture radar; 3D imaging; Ku-band SAR system; SAR images; Ukraine; X-band SAR system; aircrafts; navigation system; single-antenna; software solution; squint-mode SAR; Aircraft; Aircraft navigation; Antennas; Doppler effect; Surfaces; Synthetic aperture radar; Three dimensional displays; Airborne radar; radar applications; radar imaging; surface topography; synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT), 2011 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-754-2

Electronic_ISBN

0149-645X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2011.5972630

Filename

5972630