Motion measurement errors and autofocus in bistatic SAR

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1008-1016

  Rigling, Brian D ^a   Moses, Randolph L ^b  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofocus; Bistatic; Ground map; Motion measurement errors motion measurement errors (MMEs); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MOTION COMPENSATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AUTOFOCUS ALGORITHMS; BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); GROUP MAP; MOTION MEASUREMENT ERRORS (MMES);

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; RADAR; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 33645158951     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2005.863943     Document Type: Article

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