Simulation of ocean waves imaging by an along-track interferometric synthetic aperture radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 618-631

  Bao, Mingquan ^a   Brüning, Claus ^a   Alpers, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PULSE MODULATION; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (ATINSAR); AZIMUTHAL IMAGE SMEAR; VELOCITY BUNCHING;

WATER WAVES;

EID: 0031144287     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.581977     Document Type: Article

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