A contrast-based algorithm for synthetic range-profile motion compensation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3053-3062

  Berizzi, Fabrizio ^a,b   Martorella, Marco ^a   Cacciamano, Andrea ^a   Capria, Amerigo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Radar imaging; Radar signal processing

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR COMPENSATION; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MOTION COMPENSATION; RADAR; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS;

COMPENSATION TECHNIQUES; CONTRAST OPTIMIZATION; DISTORTION EFFECTS; ESTIMATION ERRORS; HIGH PULSE REPETITION FREQUENCY; NOISE RATIOS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR RETURNS; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; RADIAL ACCELERATION; RADIAL VELOCITIES; RANGE PROFILING; REAL DATA; STEPPED-FREQUENCY RADARS; STEPPED-FREQUENCY WAVEFORMS; TARGET MOTIONS; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 53849123368     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2002576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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