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Chapten 3<br />

Review of Digital <strong>SAR</strong><br />

Processors<br />

3.1 <strong>SAR</strong>, Geometry and General Frinciples<br />

The antenna patteln is chalactelized by the width arcl shape o{ the mail<br />

lobe. Tlre widtlr of the main lobe is usually replesented by lhe half-power<br />

l¡ea¡nwidth cleflned as the algular wiclth of the main lobe between the two<br />

angles at rvhich the rnagnitude is equal to half the ladiation patterr's peak<br />

value (or -3 clB on a clecibel scale) (Ulaby et al. 11.031, pp.101).<br />

A circular antenna with unifolrn current clistlil¡ution will ploduce a "pencil<br />

beam" r'adiation patteln involving first olcler Bessel functions. The halfpower<br />

beamwidth B in radians in this case is given by<br />

ß-"<br />

(3.1)<br />

whele / is the cliameter of the circular autenna ancl À is wavelelgth (Ulaby<br />

et aL [103], pp.13i). A tectangulal antenna, rnoLe colnrnouly usecl for'<br />

imaging laclals, rvith unifol'n cuu'ent distlibution ivill produce a "fan l¡eam"<br />

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