Efficient method for the translational motion compensation of inverse synthetic aperture radar imagery

Optical Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 433-442

  Flores, Benjamin C ^a   Son, Jae Sok ^b   Tariq, Salim ^c  

^a 500 W University Avenue   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

^c GIK INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Complex analysis; Cramer Rao bounds; Focal quality indicator; SAR motion compensation; Weighted least squares

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOTION COMPENSATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0035270304     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1349215     Document Type: Article

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