A novel approach for wide-swath and high-resolution SAR image generation from distributed small spaceborne SAR systems

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1015-1033

  Li, Zhenfang ^a   Bao, Zheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

GROUND ECHOES; IMAGE GENERATION; PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY (PRF); SPACE-TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING (STAP); SPACEBORNE SYSTEMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADAR IMAGERY; SIR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33646785782     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160500117873     Document Type: Article

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