An airborne synthetic aperture radar (sar) experiment to support radarsat-2 ground moving target indication (gmti)

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 794-813

  Livingstone, C E ^a   Sikaneta, I ^a   Gierull, C H ^a   Chiu, S ^a   Beaudoin, A ^a   Campbell, J ^a   Beaudoin, J ^a   Gong, S ^b   Knight, T A ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERFEROMETRY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALONG TRACK INTERFEROMETRY (ATI);

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0142125786     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m02-074     Document Type: Article

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