Imaging algorithms for a strip-map synthetic aperture sonar: Minimizing the effects of aperture errors and aperture undersampling

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 27-39

  Gough, Peter T ^a,b,c   Hawkins, David W ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Sonar; Sonar array; Sonar imaging mapping; Sonar signal processing; Synthetic aperture imaging; Synthetic aperture sonar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

IMAGING ALGORITHMS; SONAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

SONAR;

EID: 0030672586     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/48.557537     Document Type: Article

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