Synthetic aperture imaging of multiple point targets in rician fading media

SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 344-366

  Fannjiang, Albert C ^a   Solna, Knut ^b   Yan, Pengchong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Resolution; Response matrix; Rician fading; Stability; Synthetic aperture

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; STABILITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

CROSS-RANGE RESOLUTION; DISCRETE SCATTERERS; MULTIPLE POINT TARGETS; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; RESPONSE MATRICES; RICIAN FADING; STABILITY CONDITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE IMAGING;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 70350695790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19364954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/080728937     Document Type: Article

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