Design of a millimetre Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) onboard UAV´s

Author

Saldaña, Raquel Ruiz ; Martínez, Félix Pérez

Author_Institution

Polytech. Univ. of Madrid, Madrid

fYear

2007

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

This paper describes the design for an experimental short-range (2 Km) high-resolution (30Ã—30 cm²) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensor in the millimetre wave band to take it onboard Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). The novelty lies on the establishment of new and very demanding requirements induced by the need of being onboard low cost aerial platforms and so, susceptible of been employed in numerous military and civil applications, providing the basic advantage of these sensors against electro-optics: the possibility of using them at any time (night and day) and practically under any meteorological condition.

Keywords

aircraft control; electro-optical devices; remotely operated vehicles; synthetic aperture radar; SAR sensor; UAV; civil applications; electro-optics; military applications; millimetre synthetic aperture radar; millimetre wave band; unmanned aerial vehicles; Bandwidth; Frequency; Image resolution; Meteorological radar; Meteorology; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Signal resolution; Synthetic aperture radar; Unmanned aerial vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2007. ICECS 2007. 14th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1377-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1378-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2007.4510916

Filename

4510916