Design Aspects and Performance Estimation of the Reflector Based Digital Beam-Forming SAR System

The paper discusses a novel SAR system concept based on digital beam-forming (DBF) using a reflector antenna. The main design aspects of the reflector antenna with multiple digital feed elements in particular specific for future DBF SAR systems are considered. Based on the presented initial antenna design the system performance is analyzed and the analysis results are discussed.

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