Detection of single scatterers in multidimensional SAR imaging

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2284-2297

  De Maio, Antonio ^a   Fornaro, Gianfranco ^b   Pauciullo, Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Differential tomography; Multidimensional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging; Scatterer detection

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT FALSE ALARM RATE DETECTIONS; CRAMER RAO LOWER BOUND; DESIGN CRITERION; DIFFERENTIAL INTERFEROMETRY; DIFFERENTIAL TOMOGRAPHY; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST; INTERFEROGRAM; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGING; NEW OPTIONS; PERSISTENT SCATTERERS; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGING; SAR INTERFEROMETRY; SCATTERER DETECTION; WALD TEST;

ALARM SYSTEMS; CONTROL THEORY; DETECTORS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERFEROMETERS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SCATTERING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

DETECTION METHOD; INTERFEROMETRY; MONITORING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TESTING METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67651154158     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2011632     Document Type: Article

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