Airborne SAR System with Real Time Processor

Accession number;03A0296565
Title;Airborne SAR System with Real Time Processor
Author; MIENO M (Nec Corp.) NAGATA H (Nec Corp.) SHINOHARA H (Nec Corp.) MURATA M (Nec Corp.) NOMI H (Nec Corp.)
Journal Title;NEC Res Dev
Journal Code:G0138A
ISSN:0547-051X
VOL.44;NO.2;PAGE.153-156(2003)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.5, REF.2
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;English
Abstract;NEC has developed an advanced airborne real-time synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. The system has already been delivered to some customers and is in operation. By implementing all necessary processing functions by software, such as yaw-steering compensation and multi-resolution mode with pre-summing, we have been able to eliminate several important hardware components such as mechanical yaw steering system and data reduction filters. This fully digitized and software oriented SAR architecture gives significant flexibility to the system, without compromising its performance. This radar system consists of SAR antenna equipment, an RF rack, and a control parts rack. (author abst.)