Focusing bistatic SAR data using the nonlinear chirp scaling algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2493-2505

  Wong, Frank H ^b   Cumming, Ian G ^a,c   Neo, Yew Lam ^a,d  

^a IEEE

^b MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d DSO NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bistatic SAR; Chirp scaling; Perturbation function; Point target response; Range cell migration (RCM) correction (RCMC); Secondary range compression (SRC); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CYTOLOGY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; METHOD OF MOMENTS; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES;

AZIMUTH COMPRESSION; BISTATIC; BISTATIC SAR; BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; CHIRP SCALING; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN METHODS; LINEAR RANGE; NON-LINEAR CHIRP SCALING; NON-STATIONARITY; NON-STATIONARY; NONLINEAR CHIRP SCALING ALGORITHM; PERTURBATION FUNCTION; POINT TARGET RESPONSE; RANGE CELL MIGRATION (RCM) CORRECTION (RCMC); SECONDARY RANGE COMPRESSION (SRC); SERIES EXPANSION; SIGNAL SPECTRUMS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); TIME-DOMAIN ALGORITHMS;

DATA COMPRESSION;

EID: 50549085991     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.917599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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