Focusing resonance signatures in ultra-wideband SAR images by allpass filtering

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1640-1644

  Rau, Richard ^a   McClellan, James H ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allpass filters; Radial slice approximation; Resonance signatures; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FIR FILTERS; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALLPASS FILTERING; RADIAL SLICE APPROXIMATIONS; RESONANCE SIGNATURES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0034259387     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.862648     Document Type: Article

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