GPS-based time & phase synchronization processing for distributed SAR

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1040-1051

  Wang, Wen Qin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE REMOTE SENSING; DISTRIBUTED SAR; HIGH-FREQUENCY STABILITY; HIGH-PRECISION; MONOSTATIC; MULTISTATIC SAR; PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; RANGE ALIGNMENT; REFERENCE OSCILLATORS; RESIDUAL PHASE; RESIDUAL TIME; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SUB-APERTURE AUTOFOCUS; TECHNICAL PROBLEM; TEMPORAL SYNCHRONIZATION;

ALIGNMENT; ERRORS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MILITARY APPLICATIONS; MILITARY RADAR; RADAR CROSS SECTION; RECEIVING ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNCHRONIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

RADAR ANTENNAS;

EID: 72649083945     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2009.5259181     Document Type: Article

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