Compensating the effects of target acceleration in dual-channel SAR-GMTI

IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar and Navigation

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 53-62

  Sharma, J J ^a   Gierull, C H ^b   Collins, M J ^c  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; GROUND VEHICLES; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

ACCELERATING TARGETS; AZIMUTHAL SHIFT; AZIMUTHAL SMEARING; PSEUDO-WIGNER-VILLE DISTRIBUTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 32644436976     PISSN: 13502395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-rsn:20045116     Document Type: Article

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