Focusing spaceborne/airborne hybrid bistatic SAR data using wavenumber-domain algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2275-2283

  Wang, Robert ^a   Loffeld, Otmar ^a   Nies, Holger ^a   Ender, Joachim H G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHYSICS AND RADAR TECHNIQUES FHR   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bistatic point target reference spectrum (BPTRS); Bistatic synthetic aperture radar (BiSAR); Range cell migration (RCM); Time bandwidth product (TBP)

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SYSTEMS; AZIMUTH RESOLUTION; BISTATIC; BISTATIC POINT-TARGET REFERENCE SPECTRUM (BPTRS); BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (BISAR); DOPPLER SPECTRA; FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE; MONOSTATIC; PROCESSING PROCEDURES; RANGE CELL MIGRATION (RCM); RANGE DEPENDENCE; REFERENCE SPECTRUM; SAR PROCESSING; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SPACEBORNE SYSTEMS; SPACEBORNE/AIRBORNE HYBRID BI-STATIC SAR; SPOTLIGHT MODE; TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCT (TBP); TIME-BANDWIDTH PRODUCTS; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; WAVE NUMBERS; WEIGHTING FACTORS;

BANDWIDTH; CELL MEMBRANES; CYTOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; CYTOLOGY; DEFORMATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYBRID; MODEL VALIDATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 67651165048     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2008.2010852     Document Type: Article

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