Data-level fusion of multilook inverse synthetic aperture radar images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1394-1406

  Li, Zhixi ^a,b   Papson, Scott ^a,c   Narayanan, Ram M ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b HYPRES INC   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Radar data processing; Radar imaging; Radar resolution; Radar target classification; Radar target recognition

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; DATA PROCESSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUSION REACTIONS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE FUSION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFORMATION FUSION; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SENSOR NETWORKS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS;

IMAGING; RADAR DATA PROCESSING; RADAR RESOLUTION; RADAR TARGET CLASSIFICATION;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 52649127329     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.916088     Document Type: Article

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