Title :
Active SAR antennas development in Italy
Author :
Capece, Pasquale ; Capuzi, Arnaldo
Author_Institution :
Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I), Rome, Italy
Abstract :
The paper summarizes the design of the active SAR Antenna for COSMO-SkyMed Mission. It consists of a planar deployable active phased array characterized by high beam flexibility and realized by a modular approach based on the tile concept.
Keywords :
antenna phased arrays; radar antennas; synthetic aperture radar; COSMO-SkyMed mission; active SAR antenna; high beam flexibility; planar deployable active phased array; Arrays; Radar; Radar antennas; Radio frequency; Satellites; Tiles; Active phased array; SAR antennas; Tiles;
Conference_Titel :
Synthetic Aperture Radar (APSAR), 2011 3rd International Asia-Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1351-4