Estimation of radial velocity of moving targets by along-track interferometric SAR systems

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 349-353

  Budillon, Alessandra ^a,b   Pascazio, Vito ^a,b   Schirinzi, Gilda ^c  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cramer Rao bounds; Ground moving target indication (GMTI); Statistical signal processing; Synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR)

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INTERFEROMETRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS;

DETERMINISTIC MODELING; ESTIMATION ACCURACIES; GAUSSIAN MODELING; GROUND MOVING TARGET (GMT); INTERFEROGRAM; INTERFEROMETRIC PHASE; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR (INSAR); INTERFEROMETRIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (INSAR); LOW VELOCITIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION (MLSE); MOVING TARGETS; MULTI CHANNEL (MC); NOISE LEVELS; RADIAL VELOCITY (RV); SYSTEM PARAMETERS; TARGET RESPONSE;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 47849116888     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.915937     Document Type: Article

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