Synthetic aperture inversion for arbitrary flight paths in the presence of noise and clutter

IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings

Volumn 2005-January, Issue January, 2005, Pages 806-810

  Yazici, Birsen ^a   Cheney, Margaret ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

arbitrary flight path; clutter; microlocal analysis; noise; SAR

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); FLIGHT PATHS; RADAR;

BACK-PROJECTION IMAGING; BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; MICROLOCAL ANALYSIS; NOISE; SAR; SINGLE-SCATTERING MODEL; STATISTICAL INFORMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING SYSTEMS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 34548852970     PISSN: 10975659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RADAR.2005.1435937     Document Type: Conference Paper

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