Multichannel azimuth processing in ScanSAR and TOPS mode operation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2994-3008

  Gebert, Nicolas ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a,b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

High resolution ultrawide swath synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging; Multichannel azimuth processing; Multichannel burst mode operation; ScanSAR; TOPS

Indexed keywords

AZIMUTH PROCESSING; BURST-MODE OPERATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; MULTI-CHANNEL; MULTICHANNEL BURST-MODE OPERATION; SCANSAR; ULTRA-WIDE;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ANTENNA; AZIMUTH; IMAGING METHOD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77953870540     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2041356     Document Type: Article

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