Performance Analysis of AIRBORNE SAR System

In today's modern era, SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) is used extensively for military purposes, especially AIRBORNE SAR. Traditional AIRBORNE SAR system is comparatively complex, costly and are of large volume. It cannot be installed again and again for different applications, so we have developed an optimum AIRBORNE SAR system operating in X band which have all system parameter like azimuth resolution, antenna aperture length etc. in prime state. In this paper, SAR sensor designing is put into practice in order to satisfy a set of performance parameters. The modeling of design parameters for Spotlight and Stripmap mode of operations are stimulated. This paper illustrates how one single SAR system may function in both Spotlight and Stripmap modes and it also yields different resolution levels based on requirements at the expense of other factors.