Imaging the rotor blades of hovering helicopters with SAR

2008 IEEE Radar Conference, RADAR 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Barber, B C ^a  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Helicopters; Micro doppler; SAR

Indexed keywords

HELICOPTERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; RADAR; ROTATION; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

ELEMENTARY ANALYSIS; GHOST IMAGES; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; MICRO-DOPPLER; PHYSICAL OPTICS APPROXIMATIONS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTIONS; ROTATING BLADES; ROTATION RATES; ROTOR BLADES; SAR; SAR IMAGES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 61849135737     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RADAR.2008.4720849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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