A geostationary MIMO SAR swarm for quasi-continuous observation

Conference paper (2015)

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A. Monti Guarnieri Politecnico di Milano
Antoni Broquetas Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Paco López-Dekker Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
F Rocca Politecnico di Milano
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10-11-2015

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English

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Abstract

The paper discusses the implementation of a quasi-geostationary MIMO Synthetic Aperture Radar swarm, also defined as ARGOS in [1]. Such system combines the all-time-all-weather image capability of a SAR, with the resolution enhance, robustness and scalability of a swarm and the continuous observation provide by the geostationary orbit. Two C-band concepts are analyzed in details that differ for the image time and azimuth resolution.