A new slant-range velocity ambiguity resolving approach of fast moving targets for SAR system

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 432-451

  Zhu, Shengqi ^a   Liao, Guisheng ^a   Qu, Yi ^a,b   Liu, Xiangyang ^a,c   Zhou, Zhengguang ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ENGINEERING COLLEGE OF ARMED POLICE FORCE   (China)

^c Xi'an Communication College   (China)

Author keywords

Ground moving target indication; Range frequency domain; Slant range velocity estimation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Velocity ambiguity; Wavelength diversity

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION; SLANT-RANGE VELOCITY ESTIMATION; VELOCITY AMBIGUITY; WAVELENGTH DIVERSITY;

ESTIMATION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TARGETS; VELOCITY;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; NUMERICAL METHOD; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY PROFILE; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 73249114208     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2027698     Document Type: Article

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