Traffic monitoring with spaceborne SAR-Theory, simulations, and experiments

Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Volumn 106, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 231-244

  Hinz, Stefan ^a   Meyer, Franz ^b   Eineder, Michael ^b   Bamler, Richard ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Along track radar interferometry; Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar; Vehicle detection; Velocity estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION;

ALONG TRACK RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SPACEBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEHICLE DETECTION; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EID: 34247569869     PISSN: 10773142     EISSN: 1090235X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2006.09.008     Document Type: Article

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