A spatially selective approach to Doppler estimation for frame-based satellite SAR processing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1135-1148

  Cumming, Ian G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geometry models; Global surface fit; Quality metrics; Satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Doppler centroid estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DOPPLER EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SPACE SHUTTLES;

GEOMETRY MODELS; GLOBAL SURFACE FIT; QUALITY METRICES; SATELLITE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) DOPPLER CENTROID ESTIMATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 3042654680     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.825577     Document Type: Article

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