Application of synthetic bandwidth approach in SAR polar format algorithm using the deramp technique

Progress in Electromagnetics Research

Volumn 80, Issue , 2008, Pages 447-460

  Nie, X ^a   Zhu, D Y ^a   Zhu, Z D ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PROBLEM SOLVING;

POLAR FORMAT ALGORITHM (PFA); ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 40449142832     PISSN: 10704698     EISSN: 15598985     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2528/PIER07121409     Document Type: Article

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