Capabilities of dual-frequency millimeter wave SAR with monopulse processing for ground moving target indication

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 539-553

  Rüegg, Maurice ^a,b   Meier, Erich ^b   Nüesch, Daniel ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ground moving target indication (GMTI); Millimeter wave (mmW) radar; Monopulse radar; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION (GMTI); MILLIMETER WAVE (MMW) RADAR; MONOPULSE RADAR;

MILLIMETER WAVE DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TARGET TRACKING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 33847764622     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.888464     Document Type: Article

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