Ground moving targets imaging algorithm for synthetic aperture radar

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 1 PART 2, 2011, Pages 462-477

  Zhu, Shengqi ^a   Liao, Guisheng ^a   Qu, Yi ^a   Zhou, Zhengguang ^a   Liu, Xiangyang ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Doppler ambiguity; ground moving target imaging (GMTIm); ground moving target indication (GMTI); range frequency domain; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SAR; AZIMUTH COMPRESSION; COUPLING EFFECT; DOPPLER AMBIGUITY; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION; GROUND MOVING TARGETS; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; IMAGING ALGORITHM; MOTION PARAMETERS; MOVING TARGETS; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; RANGE MIGRATION; TARGET TRAJECTORY;

FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; DOPPLER RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 78650877909     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2010.2053848     Document Type: Article

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