Efficient SAR raw data generation including low squint angles and platform instabilities

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-30

  Vandewal, Marijke ^a   Speck, Rainer ^b   Süß, Helmut ^b  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne; Motion errors; Raw data generation; Simulation; Spotlight mode; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MOTION ERRORS; RAW DATA GENERATION; SPOTLIGHT MODE; SQUINT ANGLES;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 38349171505     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.907419     Document Type: Article

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