Total Zero Doppler steering - A new method for minimizing the Doppler centroid

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 141-145

  Fiedler, Hauke ^a   Boerner, Elke ^a   Mittermayer, Josef ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Doppler centroid; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Yaw steering; Zero Doppler steering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERFEROMETRY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DOPPLER CENTROID; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (SAR); YAW STEERING; ZERO DOPPLER STEERING;

DOPPLER EFFECT;

EID: 18844366711     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.844591     Document Type: Article

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