Focusing parallel bistatic SAR data using the analytic transfer function in the wavenumber domain

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3633-3645

  Zhenhua, Zhang ^b   Mengdao, Xing ^b   Jinshan, Ding ^b   Zheng, Bao ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bistatic range migration algorithm (BiRMA); Bistatic synthetic aperture radar (BiSAR); Instantaneous Doppler wavenumber (IDW); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; TARGET TRACKING; TAYLOR SERIES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

BISTATIC RANGE MIGRATION ALGORITHM (BIRMA); BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (BISAR); INSTANTANEOUS DOPPLER WAVENUMBER (IDW); WAVENUMBER;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 35648993042     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.903677     Document Type: Conference Paper

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