Estimating surface water speeds with a single-phase center SAR versus an along-track interferometric SAR

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3638-3646

  Kersten, Paul R ^a   Toporkov, Jakov V ^a   Ainsworth, Thomas L ^a   Sletten, Mark A ^a   Jansen, Robert W ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR); time frequency analysis

Indexed keywords

APERTURE SYSTEM; COLLECTION GEOMETRY; DESIGN CRITERION; INTERFEROMETRIC SAR; MOTION PARAMETERS; MOVING TARGETS; NON-PARAMETRIC; PHASE CENTER; PHASE INFORMATION; RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED; SAR SYSTEM; TIME AND SPACE; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; TIME-FREQUENCY METHODS; UPPER BOUND; WATER CHANNELS;

IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR ASTRONOMY; SHIPS; SPEED; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; PARAMETERIZATION; RADAR INTERFEROMETRY; SURFACE WATER; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER FLOW;

EID: 77956998561     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2048571     Document Type: Article

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