Bistatic VHF and UHF SAR for urban environments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6547, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Rasmusson, Johan R ^a   Blom, Martin ^a   Flood, Björn ^a   Frölind, Per Olov ^a   Gustavsson, Anders ^a   Jonsson, Tommy ^a   Larsson, Björn ^a   Stenström, Gunnar ^a   Ulander, Lars M H ^a  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bistatic; Imaging; Mapping; SAR; Synthetic aperture radar; UHF; Urban; VHF

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MAPPING; MICROWAVES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; UHF; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS; VHF;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 35948961574     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.719700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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