A parametric model for synthetic aperture radar measurements

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1179-1188

  Gerry, Michael J ^a,b   Potter, Lee C ^a   Gupta, Inder J ^a   Van Merwe, Andria Der ^b  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b Synsis Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Image resolution; Inverse scattering; Radar imaging

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA COMPRESSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

INVERSE SCATTERING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0033361823     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/8.785750     Document Type: Article

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