A Comparison of Several Algorithms for SAR Raw Data Compression

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1266-1276

  Benz, Ursula ^a   Strodl, Klaus ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FUZZY SETS; IMAGE QUALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WHITE NOISE;

DATA COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS; DIGITIZATION ERRORS; FREQUENCY ENVELOPE; FUZZY METHOD; IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTION; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; RAW DATA COMPRESSION;

IMAGE COMPRESSION;

EID: 0029369450     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.469491     Document Type: Article

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