Reduction of sidelobe and speckle artifacts in microwave imaging: The clean technique

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1988, Pages 543-556

  Tsao, Jenho ^a   Steinberg, Bernard D ^b  

^a Interspec Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS - ARRAYS; INFORMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - ALGORITHMS; RADAR IMAGING;

HIGH ANGULAR RESOLUTION MICROWAVE IMAGES; SIDELOBE AND SPECKLE ARTIFACTS; TARGET COORDINATES EXTRACTION; TARGET DYNAMIC RANGE;

MICROWAVES;

EID: 0023997867     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: 15582221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.1144     Document Type: Article

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