Coherent radar imaging: Signal processing and statistical properties

Radio Science

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2373-2391

  Woodman, Ronald F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUTLER MATRIX; COHERENT SCATTERING; DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ESTIMATION; HOLOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LENSES; LINEAR ALGEBRA; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; RADAR; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME SERIES; ALGORITHMS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BRIGHTNESS DISTRIBUTION; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; FREQUENCY FILTERING; INVERSION ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIP; PRIORI INFORMATION; SAMPLED TIME-SERIES; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

RADAR IMAGING;

COHERENT RADAR IMAGING; INVERSION ALGORITHMS; MATRIX OPERATOR; MAXIMUM ENTROPY CONSTRAINTS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 0031272872     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97rs02017     Document Type: Article

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