Processing of bistatic SAR data from quasi-stationary configurations

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3350-3358

  Bamler, Richard ^a,b,c   Meyer, Franz ^a,b,c   Liebhart, Werner ^b,c  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bistatic SAR; Equivalent velocity; Nonhyperbolic range history; NuSAR; Orbit curvature; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC SITUATIONS; EQUIVALENT VELOCITY; NONHYPERBOLIC RANGE HISTORY; VELOCITY PARAMETER;

DATA PROCESSING; DOPPLER EFFECT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRANSCEIVERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 35648994385     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.895436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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