Bistatic SAR experiments with PAMIR and TerraSAR-X-setup, processing, and image results

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3268-3279

  Walterscheid, Ingo ^a   Espeter, Thomas ^a   Brenner, Andreas R ^a   Klare, Jens ^a   Ender, Joachim H G ^a   Nies, Holger ^b   Wang, Robert ^b   Loffeld, Otmar ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH FREQUENCY PHYSICS AND RADAR TECHNIQUES FHR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bistatic synthetic aperture radar (bistatic SAR); hybrid experiments; SAR; synchronization

Indexed keywords

AIR-BORNE SENSORS; AIRBORNE SAR; BACKPROJECTION ALGORITHMS; BEAM-STEERING; BISTATIC; BISTATIC SAR; BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FRAUNHOFER; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN ALGORITHM; HIGH FREQUENCY; HYBRID EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING RADAR; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MONOSTATIC; PHASED ARRAY ANTENNAS; PHASED ARRAYS; RADAR SATELLITES; SAR; SLIDING SPOTLIGHT MODE; SPACE-BORNE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL SEPARATION; SYNCHRONIZATION SYSTEMS; TERRASAR-X;

ANTENNA PHASED ARRAYS; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SYNCHRONIZATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRANSMITTERS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SENSOR; SIR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 77954760660     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2043952     Document Type: Article

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