Impact of oscillator noise in bistatic and multistatic SAR

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 424-428

  Krieger, Gerhard ^a,b   Younis, Marwan ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bistatic radar; Interferometry; Multistatic radar; Oscillator; Phase noise; Synchronization; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC RADAR; MULTISTATIC RADAR; OSCILLATOR NOISE; PHASE NOISE;

MODULATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33746610613     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2006.874164     Document Type: Article

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