Waveform-diversity-based millimeter-wave UAV SAR remote sensing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 691-700

  Wang, Wen Qin ^a   Peng, Qicong ^a   Cai, Jingye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar; Millimeter wave synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Unmanned airborne vehicle (UAV); Waveform diversity

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MILLIMETER WAVES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

ANTENNA MOTIONS; CROSS CORRELATIONS; FMCW SIGNALS; FREQUENCY-MODULATED CONTINUOUS-WAVE (FMCW) RADAR; IMAGING ALGORITHMS; MILLIMETER-WAVE FREQUENCIES; MILLIMETER-WAVE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR); NON-LINEARITY COMPENSATIONS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PHASE-LOCKED LOOPS; POWER CONSUMPTION; SAR IMAGING; SAR REMOTE SENSING; SAR SYSTEMS; SAR TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL MODELS; STOP-AND-GO; SYSTEM CONCEPTS; UNMANNED AIRBORNE VEHICLE (UAV); WAVE FORMS; WAVE NUMBERS; WAVEFORM DIVERSITY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ALGORITHM; CORRELATION; IMAGING METHOD; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; UNMANNED VEHICLE; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

EID: 61349094047     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2008720     Document Type: Article

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