Bistatic linear antenna array SAR for moving target detection, location, and imaging with two passive airborne radars

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 554-565

  Li, Gang ^a,b   Xu, Jia ^a,b,c   Peng, Ying Ning ^a,b   Xia, Ng Gen ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c AIR FORCE RADAR ACADEMY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Chinese remainder theorem (CRT); Moving target

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); CHINESE REMAINDER THEOREM (CRT); MOVING TARGET;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TARGET TRACKING;

ANTENNA ARRAYS;

EID: 33847749891     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.888145     Document Type: Article

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