A chirp scaling approach for processing squint mode SAR data

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 121-133

  Davidson, G W ^a,b   Cumming, I G ^a,b   Ito, M R ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERPOLATION; PHASE MODULATION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CHIRP SCALING APPROACH; IMAGE DEGRADATION; RANGE VARIANT FILTERING; SECONDARY RANGE COMPRESSION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0029733451     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.481254     Document Type: Article

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