Focus FMCW SAR data using the wavenumber domain algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2109-2118

  Wang, Robert ^a   Loffeld, Otmar ^a   Nies, Holger ^a   Knedlik, Stefan ^a   Hägelen, Manfred ^b   Essen, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Point target reference spectrum (PTRS); Range cell migration correction (RCMC); Terms frequency modulation continuous wave (FMCW); Wavenumber domain algorithm (WDA)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SIGNALS; CONTINUOUS MOTIONS; CONTINUOUS WAVE; CONTINUOUS WAVES; COUPLING TERMS; HIGH-QUALITY IMAGING; HIGHER ORDER; KA BAND; POINT TARGETS; PROCESSING METHOD; RANGE CELL MIGRATION CORRECTION; REFERENCE SPECTRUM; SAR DATA; SIGNAL DURATION; SIGNAL MODELS; SIMULATED EXPERIMENTS; SPOTLIGHT MODE; WAVENUMBER DOMAIN ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINUOUS WAVE RADAR; CYTOLOGY; IMAGE QUALITY; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; DATA SET; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE;

EID: 78650885656     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2034368     Document Type: Article

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