Focusing of airborne synthetic aperture radar data from highly nonlinear flight tracks

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1844-1858

  Frey, Othmar ^a   Magnard, Christophe ^a   Rüegg, Maurice ^a   Meier, Erich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Union Bank of Switzerland   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Corridor mapping; Curvilinear synthetic aperture radar; Digital elevation model (DEM); Extended chirp scaling (ECS); Geocoding; Georeferencing; Integrated focusing and geocod ing; Mapping; Mosaicking; Nonlinear flight tracks; SAR processing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Time domain back projection (TDBP)

Indexed keywords

CORRIDOR MAPPING; CURVILINEAR SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM); EXTENDED CHIRP SCALING (ECS); GEOCODING; GEOREFERENCING; INTEGRATED FOCUSING AND GEOCOD-ING; MOSAICKING; NONLINEAR FLIGHT TRACKS; SAR PROCESSING; TIME-DOMAIN BACK-PROJECTION (TDBP);

AIRCRAFT; DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FOCUSING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SENSORS; SURVEYING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TRACKING RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRCRAFT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SENSOR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WEATHER; WIND;

EID: 67349235557     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2007591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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