Synthetic-aperture radar processing using fast factorized back-projection

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 760-776

  Ulander, Lars M H ^a   Hellsten, Hans ^b   Stenström, Gunnar ^a  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

^b Ericsson Microwave Systems   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING;

FAST TRANSFORM ALGORITHMS; PULSE ECHO DATA;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 0345566282     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1238734     Document Type: Article

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