Bistatic radar imaging of the marine environment - Part I: Theoretical background

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 3372-3383

  Arnold Bos, Andreas ^a,b   Khenchaf, Ali ^a,b   Martin, Arnaud ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (France)

^b ENSIETA   (France)

Author keywords

Bistatic radar; Bistatic scattering; Marine surveillance systems; Radar simulation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery

Indexed keywords

BISTATIC RADAR; BISTATIC SCATTERING; MARINE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS; MULTISTATIC CONFIGURATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE SCATTERING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRANSCEIVERS;

MARINE RADAR;

EID: 35649014878     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.897436     Document Type: Conference Paper

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