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Bräutigam, Benjamin and Schwerdt, Marco and Bachmann, Markus (2009) An Efficient Method for Performance Monitoring of Active Phased Array Antennas. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47 (4), pp. 1236-1243. IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2008719.
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Abstract
Modern synthetic aperture radars (SARs) are equipped with active phased array antennas to electronically generate various antenna beams. The TerraSAR-X satellite is a high resolution SAR system launched in June 2007. Its active phased array X-band antenna hosts 384 transmit/receive modules (TRMs) for controlling the electronic beam steering in azimuth and elevation direction. The precise modeling of the antenna performance is only possible if the actual characteristics of each individual TRM are monitored. TerraSAR-X has been equipped with an innovative characterization mode based on a coding technique, which is the so-called pseudonoise gating method. The individual and simultaneous characterization of all TRMs is realized under most realistic conditions with power supply loads like in nominal radar operation. For the first time, this novel technique has been applied on a spaceborne SAR system.
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| Title: | An Efficient Method for Performance Monitoring of Active Phased Array Antennas | ||||||||||||||||
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| Date: | April 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing | ||||||||||||||||
| Refereed publication: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Open Access: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Gold Open Access: | No | ||||||||||||||||
| In SCOPUS: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
| Volume: | 47 | ||||||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2008719 | ||||||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1236-1243 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Publisher: | IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | ||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||
| Keywords: | Active phased array antenna, internal calibration, synthetic aperture radar (SAR), TerraSAR-X, transmit/receive modules (TRMs) | ||||||||||||||||
| HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport (old) | ||||||||||||||||
| HGF - Program: | Space (old) | ||||||||||||||||
| HGF - Program Themes: | W EO - Erdbeobachtung | ||||||||||||||||
| DLR - Research area: | Space | ||||||||||||||||
| DLR - Program: | W EO - Erdbeobachtung | ||||||||||||||||
| DLR - Research theme (Project): | W - Projekt TerraSAR-X Kalibration und Projektunterstützung (old) | ||||||||||||||||
| Location: | Oberpfaffenhofen | ||||||||||||||||
| Institutes and Institutions: | Microwaves and Radar Institute Microwaves and Radar Institute > Spaceborne SAR Systems | ||||||||||||||||
| Deposited By: | Bräutigam, Benjamin | ||||||||||||||||
| Deposited On: | 06 Apr 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2019 19:23 |
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