segmented aperture-synthetic aperture radar

segmented aperture-synthetic aperture radar

[′seg‚ment·əd ¦ap·ə·chər sin′thed·ik ¦ap·ə·chər ′rā‚där] (engineering) An enhancement of synthetic aperture radar that overcomes restrictions on the effective length of the receiving antenna by using a receiving antenna array composed of a set of contiguous subarrays and employing signal processing to provide the proper phase corrections for each subarray. Abbreviated SASAR.