Analysis of dependence of the space-borne synthetic aperture radar parameters on its operational modes
Analysis of dependence of the space-borne synthetic aperture radar main parameters on the requirements for its characteristics in three different operational modes, in particular ScanSar, Stripmap and Spotlight was performed. For these modes the assessment procedure was proposed in order to estimate the following: attainable and really expected spatial resolution, transmitter pulse repetition, duty factor, impulse and mean transmitter power, size of antenna aperture at different spatial resolution, ground swath and image size in spotlight mode.