Motion compensation for UAV SAR based on raw radar data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2870-2883

  Xing, Mengdao ^a   Jiang, Xiuwei ^a   Wu, Renbiao ^b   Zhou, Feng ^a   Bao, Zheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CIVIL AVIATION UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Motion compensation (MOCO); Radar imaging; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER RATES; FORWARD VELOCITY; IN-LINE; MOTION ERRORS; MOTION PARAMETERS; RADAR DATA; SAR SYSTEM; SMALL SIZE;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; MOTION COMPENSATION; NAVIGATION; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRCRAFT; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; NAVIGATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TURBULENCE; UNMANNED VEHICLE;

EID: 67949098953     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2015657     Document Type: Article

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