A Comparison of Range-Doppler and Wavenumber Domain SAR Focusing Algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 706-713

  Bamler, Richard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

range Doppler algorithm; secondary range compression; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data processing; wavenumber domain algorithm

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

RANGE-DOPPLER ALGORITHMS; SAR FOCUSING ALGORITHMS; WAVENUMBER DOMAIN ALGORITHM;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0026895492     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.158864     Document Type: Article

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