Research Article

Performance Improvement of Spaceborne SAR Using Antenna Pattern Synthesis Based on Quantum-Behaved Particle Swarm Optimization

Table 4

RASR performance summary.

Beam (SW) number123456789101112

Initial pattern (Avg.) [dB]−46.39−37.36−37.92−37.43−37.57−32.01−32.19−25.87−25.79−25.76−26.17−26.15
Optimized pattern (Avg.) [dB]−54.31−42.54−44.83−45.40−42.27−37.00−35.66−30.65−31.66−29.07−29.08−29.43
RASR improvement [dB]7.925.186.917.974.704.993.474.785.873.312.913.28