Doppler centroid estimation for ScanSAR data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 14-23

  Cafforio, Ciro ^a   Guccione, Pietro ^a   Guarnieri, Andrea Monti ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diversity methods; Doppler measurements; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DIVERSITY METHODS; DOPPLER AMBIGUITY; DOPPLER CENTROID; DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 1242331324     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.817688     Document Type: Article

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