Resolution enhancement for inversed synthetic aperture radar imaging under low SNR via improved compressive sensing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3824-3838

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Xing, Mengdao ^a,b   Qiu, Cheng Wei ^c   Li, Jun ^a   Sheng, Jialian ^a   Li, Yachao ^a   Bao, Zheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Compressing sampling; compressive sensing; inversed synthetic aperture radar (ISAR); radar imaging; superresolution

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSING SAMPLING; COMPRESSIVE SENSING; CURRENT TECHNIQUES; EFFECTIVE SUPPRESSION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; IMAGE PLANE; INVERSED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (ISAR); ISAR IMAGERY; ISAR IMAGES; ISAR IMAGING; LOW SNR; PARAMETRIC MODELING; RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT; SCATTERING CENTERS; SPARSE SIGNALS; SUPER RESOLUTION;

FADING (RADIO); IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADAR; SIGNAL RECONSTRUCTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

RADAR IMAGING;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; PIXEL; RADAR IMAGERY; RECONSTRUCTION; SAMPLING; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WAVE SCATTERING;

EID: 77957006361     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2048575     Document Type: Article

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