A simple signal processing architecture for instantaneous radar polarimetry

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1282-1289

  Howard, Stephen D ^a   Calderbank, A Robert ^b   Moran, William ^c  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Golay complementary waveforms; Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar; Radar detection; Radar polarimetry; Radar signal processing; Radar waveforms; Unitary matched filters

Indexed keywords

FILTER BANKS; POLARIMETERS; SIGNAL DETECTION; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION LOSS; MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT RADAR; RADAR DETECTION; RADAR POLARIMETRY;

RADAR;

EID: 34147184211     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2007.892809     Document Type: Article

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