Research Article

A Spaceborne Wide-Area Surveillance Mode and Its Application in Maritime Monitoring

Table 1

The basic system parameters and the system requirements.

ParameterValue

Wavelength (cm)3.125
Platform velocity (m/s)7558
Antenna length (m)4
Height (km)600
Azimuth resolution (m)20
Range resolution (m)10
Number of antenna columns32
Transmit peak power (W)3200
Receiver noise level (dB)4
Swath requirement (km)>100
Number of subswaths3
Illumination repetition times3