Selecting suitable coherent processing time window lengths for ground-based ISAR imaging of cooperative sea vessels

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3231-3240

  Abdul Gaffar, M Y ^a   Nel, W A J ^a   Inggs, M R ^b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Coherent processing time window lengths (CPTWLs); Inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR); Radar cross section (RCS) measurement; Sea vessels

Indexed keywords

BLURRED IMAGE; COHERENT PROCESSING; COHERENT PROCESSING INTERVAL; COHERENT PROCESSING TIME WINDOW LENGTHS (CPTWLS); COMPUTATIONAL SAVINGS; CROSS-RANGE RESOLUTION; FISHING TRAWLERS; GROUND BASED; HIGH QUALITY; ISAR IMAGES; ISAR IMAGING; MOTION DATA; RADAR CROSS SECTION (RCS) MEASUREMENT; RADAR DATA; RADAR RECORDING; ROTATIONAL MOTION; SEA VESSELS; SELECTION ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; FISHING VESSELS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR MEASUREMENT; ROTATIONAL FLOW; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; WINDOWS;

RADAR CROSS SECTION;

ALGORITHM; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MARINE TECHNOLOGY; RADAR IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VESSEL;

EID: 70349309450     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2019729     Document Type: Article

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