The speed and beam of a ship from its wake's SAR images

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2335-2343

  Zilman, Gregory ^a   Zapolski, Anatoli ^a   Marom, Moshe ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Radon transform; Ship dimensions; Ship wake; Speed; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; INVERSE PROBLEMS; KINEMATICS; SHIPS; SPEED CONTROL; TURBULENT FLOW; WAKES;

RANDOM TRANSFORMS; SHIP DIMENSIONS; SHIP WAKES; TURBULENT WAKES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 7044231112     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2004.833390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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