Detection of wave groups in SAR images and radar image sequences

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 6 PART I, 2003, Pages 1437-1446

  Dankert, Heiko ^a   Horstmann, Jochen ^a   Lehner, Susanne ^b   Rosenthal, Wolfgang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Group velocity; Nautical radar; Rogue waves; Synthetic aperture radar; Wave groups

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MARINE RADAR; ONE DIMENSIONAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER WAVES;

GROUP VELOCITY; HILBERT TRANSFORM; NAUTICAL RADAR; ROGUE WAVES; WAVE GROUPS;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0042382975     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.811815     Document Type: Article

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