Ground moving target indication with tandem satellite constellations

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 710-714

  Gierull, Christoph H ^a,b   Cerutti Maori, Delphine ^b   Ender, Joachim ^b  

^a DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHYSICS AND RADAR TECHNIQUES FHR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Phased array radar; Radar signal processing; Radar velocity measurement; Road vehicle location monitoring; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR SYSTEMS; RELOCATION; SATELLITES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGET DRONES; TARGETS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

PHASED ARRAY RADAR; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; RADAR VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; ROAD VEHICLE LOCATION MONITORING; SPACEBORNE RADAR;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

EID: 55649112727     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2004360     Document Type: Article

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