Nonuniform azimuth image shift observed in the Radarsat images of ships in motion

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2188-2195

  Ouchi, Kazuo ^a   Iehara, Masato ^b   Morimura, Koichi ^b   Kumano, Shintaro ^b   Takami, Isao ^b,c  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c NANZAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Azimuth image shift; Pitching velocity; Ship detection; Ship motions; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

HULLS (SHIP); MANEUVERABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMOTE SENSING; SHIPS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY; WEATHER SATELLITES;

NONUNIFORM AZIMUTH IMAGE SHIFT; SHIP MOTIONS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0036821725     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2002.802478     Document Type: Article

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