Autofocusing of SAR images based on parameters estimated from the PHAF

Signal Processing

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1382-1391

  Popović, Vesna ^a   Djurović, Igor ^a   Stanković, LJubiša ^a   Thayaparan, Thayananthan ^b   Daković, Miloš ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO   (Montenegro)

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Auto focusing; Polynomial phase signals; SAR imaging; Time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTO-FOCUSING; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; CROSS-TERMS; DEFOCUSING; HIGH ORDER AMBIGUITY FUNCTIONS; INITIAL VALUES; LOCAL POLYNOMIAL FOURIER TRANSFORM; MOTION PARAMETERS; MOVING TARGETS; PARAMETERS ESTIMATED; PHASE COMPENSATION; POLYNOMIAL PHASE SIGNAL; RADAR SIGNALS; SAR IMAGES; SAR IMAGING; STATIONARY TARGETS; THIRD-ORDER; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

POLYNOMIALS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 75549089879     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2009.10.017     Document Type: Article

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