Autofocus and super-resolution synthetic aperture radar image formation

IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 217-223

  Wu, R ^a   Li, J ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR COMPENSATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RADAR IMAGING;

AUTOFOCUS; PHASE ERROR COMPENSATION; REGIONS OF INTEREST; STRUCTURED ALGORITHM;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0034301842     PISSN: 13502395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-rsn:20000616     Document Type: Article

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