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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2020
Applicant:
Thales Alenia Space Italia S.p.a. Con Unico Socio, Rome, IT;
Inventor:
Diego Calabrese, Rome, IT;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/90 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/9017 (2013.01); G01S 13/9052 (2019.05); G01S 13/9054 (2019.05);
Abstract
The present invention concerns a method for performing SAR acquisitions, which comprises performing, in a time division fashion, SAR acquisitions of areas of a swath of earth's surface by means of a SAR system carried by an air or space platform; wherein performing SAR acquisitions in a time division fashion includes contemporaneously acquiring, in each pulse repetition interval, a plurality of areas of the swath that are separated in azimuth; and wherein the areas acquired in T successive pulse repetition intervals form an azimuth-continuous portion of said swath, T being an integer greater than one.