Current Situation and Development Trends of Spaceborne SAR Technology

LI Chunsheng; WANG Weijie; WANG Pengbo; CHEN Jie; XU Huaping; YANG Wei; YU Ze; SUN Bing; LI Jingwen

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LI Chunsheng, WANG Weijie, WANG Pengbo, CHEN Jie, XU Huaping, YANG Wei, YU Ze, SUN Bing, LI Jingwen. Current Situation and Development Trends of Spaceborne SAR Technology[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2016, 38(1): 229-240. doi: 10.11999/JEIT151116

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LI Chunsheng, WANG Weijie, WANG Pengbo, CHEN Jie, XU Huaping, YANG Wei, YU Ze, SUN Bing, LI Jingwen. Current Situation and Development Trends of Spaceborne SAR Technology[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2016, 38(1): 229-240. doi: 10.11999/JEIT151116

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Current Situation and Development Trends of Spaceborne SAR Technology

doi: 10.11999/JEIT151116

Received Date: 2015-09-30
Rev Recd Date: 2015-12-18
Publish Date: 2016-01-19

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Throughout the progress of spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology, it is switching from traditional specific technology breakthrough to concept and system innovation. Nowadays various application- oriented new systems and new models are emerging, which push forward the development of spaceborne SAR technology. This paper provides an introduction on the status of spaceborne SAR technology in Europe, the United States and other countries and discusses the trends of future spaceborne SAR technology. Emphases are laid on the development of spaceborne SAR technology for high-resolution wide-swath observation, multi-azimuth information acquisition, high-temporal information acquisition, 3-D terrain mapping and image quality improvement.
- SAR,
- Multi-azimuth information acquisition,
- High-resolution wide-swath,
- High-temporal information acquisition

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