Ambiguity-free doppler centroid estimation technique for airborne SAR using the radon transform

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 715-721

  Kong, Young Kyun ^a   Cho, Byung Lae ^a   Kim, Young Soo ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Clutter lock; Doppler ambiguity resolver; Doppler ambiguity resolver (DAR); Doppler centroid estimation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RADIOMETRY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CLUTTER-LOCK; DOPPLER AMBIGUITY RESOLVER (DAR); DOPPLER CENTROID ESTIMATION; RADON TRANSFORMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 16444374366     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.843955     Document Type: Article

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