Potential effects of the ionosphere on space-based SAR imaging

IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1968-1975

  Xu, Zheng Wen ^a   Wu, Jian ^a   Wu, Zhen Sen ^b  

^a CHINA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF RADIOWAVE PROPAGATION   (China)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electromagnetic propagation in random media; Ionospheric electromagnetic propagation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISPERSION (WAVES); IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IONOSPHERE; IONOSPHERIC ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; RADAR; SULFATE MINERALS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TARGET DRONES; TURBULENCE;

DISTORTION (DEFORMATION); FARADAY ROTATION EFFECTS; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATION (GA); GROUP DELAYS; HIGHER ORDER DISPERSION; IMAGING RESOLUTIONS; INTERNATIONAL REFERENCE IONOSPHERE (IRI); IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS; IONOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LOWER FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHASE PERTURBATIONS; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; PULSE BROADENING; RANGE RESOLUTION (RR); SAR IMAGING; SPACE-BASED; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); VHF/UHF;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 47249129039     PISSN: 0018926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2008.924695     Document Type: Article

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