Pulse pair beamforming and the effects of reflectivity field variations on imaging radars

Radio Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Cheong, Boon Leng ^a   Hoffman, Michael W ^a   Palmer, Robert D ^a   Frasier, Stephen J ^b   Lopez Dekker F J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Gradient variations; Imaging radars; Pulse pair beamforming

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIO ASTRONOMY; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

COHERENT RADAR IMAGING (CRI); GRADIENT VARIATIONS; IMAGING RADARS; PULSE PAIR BEAMFORMING;

DOPPLER RADAR;

EID: 3843100313     PISSN: 00486604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002RS002843     Document Type: Article

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