Analytic models and postprocessing techniques for UWB SAR

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1058-1074

  Rau, Richard ^c   McClellan, James H ^a,b,d  

^a IEEE

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHM; LINEAR SHIFT INVARIANT MODEL; SIGNAL MODEL;

CHANNEL CAPACITY; DATA ACQUISITION; FOCUSING; IMAGE QUALITY; PROCESSING; REFLECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0034291401     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/7.892658     Document Type: Article

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