Title :
Digital Beam-Forming reconfigurable Radar System demonstrator
Author :
Patyuchenko, A. ; Rommel, T. ; Laskowski, P. ; Younis, M. ; Krieger, G.
Author_Institution :
German Aerosp. Center (DLR), Microwaves & Radar Inst., Wessling, Germany
Abstract :
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) based on the Digital Beam-Forming (DBF) concept belongs to the family of Multi-Modal Radar Systems (MMRS) offering higher operational flexibility and improved performance compared to conventional radar systems using analog beam steering. DBF SAR, in particular, overcomes the fundamental limitation of classical SAR systems and can deliver high resolution and simultaneously wide swath images. The purpose of this paper is to present a laboratory prototype of such a MMRS architecture - a reconfigurable radar demonstrator based on the DBF architecture. A hardware configuration of the radar as well as advanced concepts to be experimentally verified using it are considered and discussed.
Keywords :
array signal processing; geophysical signal processing; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; DBF SAR; DBF concept; MMRS architecture; analog beam steering; digital beam forming; multimodal radar system; operational flexibility; reconfigurable radar system demonstrator; synthetic aperture radar; wide swath image; Abstracts; Argon; Europe; Image resolution; Indexes; Sensor systems; MIMO; digital beam-forming; radar; reflector; synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1160-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2153-6996
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351103