Real-Time Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Processing with a New Subaperture Approach

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 714-722

  Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Real Time SAR Processing; Subaperture Processing; Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE COMPRESSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DOPPLER CENTROID ESTIMATION; PHASE HISTORY CORRECTION; REAL-TIME SAR PROCESSING; SUBAPERTURE PROCESSING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0026898762     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.158865     Document Type: Article

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