Integrated beam synthesis technique of phased array antenna for variable look-angle SAR

An integrated beam synthesis algorithm is presented to optimize the multiple beams of variable look-angle SAR antenna. With an iterative solution scheme of improved projection matrix algorithm, the amplitude excitations (common to all beams) and the phase of such excitations (corresponding to each radiated beam) are determined simultaneously. Antenna beams are controlled by phase only in SAR system. The sample application of multiple beams SAR antenna design is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the presented algorithm. And the noise-equivalent sigma-zero (NEσ
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) of SAR system is improved as well.