MCA: A multichannel approach to SAR autofocus

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 840-853

  Morrison Jr , Robert L ^a,b   Do, Minh N ^a   Munson Jr , David C ^c  

^a United States of America   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Blind deconvolution; Circular deconvolution; Image restoration; Multichannel; Sharpness optimization; Signal subspace methods; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) autofocus

Indexed keywords

CONVOLUTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC LOGIC DEVICES; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RESTORATION; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BLIND DECONVOLUTION; CIRCULAR DECONVOLUTION; IMAGE RESTORATION; MULTICHANNEL; SHARPNESS OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL SUBSPACE METHODS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 63749130926     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2009.2012883     Document Type: Article

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