Coherent radar imaging using Capon's method

Radio Science

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1585-1598

  Palmer, Robert D ^a   Gopalam, Sridhar ^a   Yu, Tian You ^a   Fukao, Shoichiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA PROCESSING; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; OPTIMIZATION;

COHERENT RADAR IMAGING;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0032205702     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98RS02200     Document Type: Article

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