Deterination of Antenna Elevation Patter For Airbore SAR Using the Rough Target Approach

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 1990, Pages 896-905

  Hawkins, Robert K ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DATA PROCESSING - DATA ACQUISITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; RADAR INTERFERENCE - CLUTTER; REMOTE SENSING;

ANTENNA ELEVATION PATTERN; DATA AMALGAMATION; DYNAMIC ANTENNA POINTING; NEAREST NEIGHBOR DATA RESAMPLING; REAL-TIME RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING AIRBORNE SAR;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0025492026     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.58979     Document Type: Article

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