Simulation study of coherent radar imaging

Radio Science

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1129-1141

  Yu, Tian You ^a   Palmer, Robert D ^a   Hysell, D L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; HOLOGRAPHY; IONOSPHERE; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING;

CAPON METHOD; COHERENT RADAR IMAGING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHOD;

RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; CONSTRAINED OPTIMI-ZATION PROBLEMS; HIGH SIGNALTO-NOISE RATIOS (SNR); NO-STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SCATTERING STRUCTURES; SIMULATION STUDIES; STATISTICAL COMPARISONS;

EID: 0034264969     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999RS002236     Document Type: Article

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