NUFFT-Based iterative reconstruction algorithm for synthetic aperture imaging radiometers

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 273-276

  Zhou, Xi ^a   Sun, Houjun ^a   He, Jiwei ^a   Lu, Xin ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Antenna arrays; Image reconstruction; Microwave radiometry; Synthetic aperture imaging

Indexed keywords

ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CONJUGATE GRADIENT ALGORITHMS; ELEMENT ANTENNAS; FREQUENCY INTERPOLATIONS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; GRIDDING METHODS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHMS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MIN MAXES; NEW TECHNOLOGIES; NON-UNIFORM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING RADIOMETERS; VISIBILITY FUNCTIONS; WHOLE SYSTEMS;

ANTENNA ARRAYS; CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE ANTENNAS; MICROWAVES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; RESTORATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 65049087038     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2012123     Document Type: Article

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