Phase synchronization and doppler centroid estimation in fixed receiver bistatic SAR systems

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 3459-3471

  López Dekker, Paco ^a   Mallorquí, Jordi J ^a   Serra Morales, Pau ^a   Sanz Marcos, Jesús ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Estudio Cota Cero ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Bistatic radar; Phase synchronization; Synchronization; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; DOPPLER EFFECT; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RECORDING; ORBITS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNCHRONIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TARGET DRONES; TRANSMITTERS;

BISTATIC; BISTATIC CONFIGURATIONS; BISTATIC RADAR; BISTATIC SAR; BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; COHERENT SOURCES; CONTROL POINTS; DEDICATED CHANNELS; DOPPLER CENTROID ESTIMATIONS; DOPPLER CENTROIDS; ENVISAT; EXPERIMENTAL DATUMS; FIXED RECEIVERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; NEGATIVE IMPACTS; PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; PHASE SYNCHRONIZATIONS; RECEIVER SYNCHRONIZATIONS; REFERENCE OSCILLATORS; SATELLITE ORBITS; TEMPORAL ALIGNMENTS; TIME FRAMES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 56849092300     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.923322     Document Type: Article

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