Design and analysis of an X-band synthetic aperture radar for a joint mission with NASA's Shuttle Imaging Radar
Abstract
This paper describes the conceptual layout of a Shuttle borne X-band Synthetic Aperture Radar. In a joint mission this German/Italian radar experiment shall complement the Shuttle Imaging Radar (SIR-C) of NASA operating in L- and C-band. The main objectives are simultaneous measurements in L, C, and X-band. In the future this will increase the viability of radar image interpretation, and hence enlarge the role of radar remote sensing in the global earth scientific research program concerning oceanography, meteorology, geology, hydrology, vegetation and other land applications.
- Publication:
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IN: Machine processing of remotely sensed data - Quantifying global process: Models
- Pub Date:
- 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985mprs.proc..271B
- Keywords:
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- Design Analysis;
- Shuttle Imaging Radar;
- Superhigh Frequencies;
- Synthetic Aperture Radar;
- Ambiguity;
- Parameterization;
- Performance Prediction;
- Radar Resolution;
- Systems Engineering;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking