Doppler Parameter Estimation for Spaceborne Synthetic-Aperture Radars

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn GE-23, Issue 1, 1985, Pages 47-56

  Li, Fuk Kwok ^a   Held, Danel N ^a   Curlander, John C ^a   Wu, Chialin ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACECRAFT - RADIO EQUIPMENT;

DOPPLER CENTROID-CLUTTERLOCK; DOPPLER PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEASAT SAR; SPACEBORNE RADAR;

RADAR;

EID: 0021828309     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.1985.289499     Document Type: Article

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