Statistical analysis of multilook SAR interferograms for CFAR detection of ground moving targets

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 691-701

  Gierull, Christoph H ^a  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ground moving target indication (GMTI); SAR interferometry; Statistics of SAR interferograms

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA REDUCTION; FREQUENCIES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS;

GROUND MOVING-TARGET INDICATION (GMTI); HISTOGRAMS; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; STATISTICS OF SAR INTERFEROGRAMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 2442463598     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2003.821886     Document Type: Article

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