Improved slope estimation for SAR doppler ambiguity resolution

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 707-718

  Cumming, Ian G ^a,b   Li, Shu ^b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Doppler ambiguity resolution; Doppler centroid estimation; Radon transform; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) antenna pointing angle.

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER AMBIGUITY RESOLUTION; DOPPLER CENTROID ESTIMATION; RADON TRANSFORM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) ANTENNA POINTING ANGLES;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; DOPPLER EFFECT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33244482290     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.861925     Document Type: Article

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