Radar imaging of moving targets in foliage using multifrequency multiaperture polarimetric SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1755-1764

  Wang, Genyuan ^a   Xia, Xiang Gen ^a   Chen, Victor C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Foliage; Moving targets; Multifrequency; Polarimetric; Radar imaging; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; ESTIMATION; POLARIMETERS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR RECEIVERS; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

MFMA POLSAR; MOVING TARGETS; MULTIFREQUENCY ANTENNA ARRAY; PHASE ESTIMATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 0141452979     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.813501     Document Type: Article

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