Signal processing for FMCW SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3519-3532

  Meta, Adriano ^a,b,c   Hoogeboom, Peter ^b,d   Ligthart, Leo P ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Doppler frequency correction; Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW); Nonlinearity correction; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER FREQUENCY CORRECTION; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS WAVE (FMCW); LONG-RANGE APPLICATIONS; NONLINEARITY CORRECTION;

BEAMFORMING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE SENSORS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSMITTERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 35648973775     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.906140     Document Type: Conference Paper

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