GOTCHA experience report: Three-dimensional SAR imaging with complete circular apertures

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6568, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ertin, Emre ^a   Austin, Christian D ^a   Sharma, Samir ^a   Moses, Randolph L ^a   Potter, Lee C ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular SAR; Polarimetrie processing; Synthetic aperture radar; Three dimensional imaging; Wide angle imaging

Indexed keywords

CIRCULAT SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; POLARIMETRIE PROCESSING; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLUMETRIC IMAGING; WIDE ANGLE IMAGING;

BACKSCATTERING; DATA ACQUISITION; POLARIMETERS; REFLECTION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RADAR IMAGING;

EID: 35948997735     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.723245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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