High Resolution Tactical Synthetic Aperture Radar (TSAR) - MATLAB Simulations for Radar Systems Design - page 607

tive system of coordinates is denoted as . The vector defines the radar
location at time . The transmitting antenna consists of a linear real array
operating in the sequential mode. The real array is of size

O OM

t c

N , element spacing

d , and the radiators are circular dishes of diameter Dd = . Assuming that the

aircraft scans M

NM

transmitting locations along the flight path, then a rectangular

array of size × is synthesized, as illustrated in Fig. 12.15.

Z

#N

D ob

t c

M

ρ t ()

β ∗

#1

swath

h

v

O

X

( 000 ,, )

qt ()

footprint

Y

Figure 12.14. Geometry for DFTSQM imaging system.

Z

swath

v

X

Y

Figure 12.15. Synthesized 2-D array.