Characters of merchant vessels in spaceborne SAR imagery

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6406, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Chen, Peng ^a   Huang, Weigen ^a   Yang, Jingsong ^a   Fu, Bin ^a   Lou, XiuLin ^a   Zhang, Huagon ^a  

^a Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Feature; High resolution; Merchant ship; SAR

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAKES;

MERCHANT SHIPS; RADAR CROSS SECTION (RCS); SHIP LENGTH; SHIP SCATTERING;

NAVAL VESSELS;

EID: 33846958431     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.693855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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