Power versus performance tradeoffs of GPU-accelerated backprojection-based synthetic aperture radar image formation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8060, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Portillo, Ricardo ^a   Arunagiri, Sarala ^a   Teller, Patricia J ^a   Park, Song J ^b   Nguyen, Lam H ^b   Deroba, Joseph C ^b   Shires, Dale ^b  

^a 500 W University Avenue   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Backprojection; Direct measurement; Image formation; Image quality; Performance analysis; Power; SAR

Indexed keywords

BACK-PROJECTION; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; IMAGE FORMATIONS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POWER; SAR;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; QUALITY CONTROL; RADAR MEASUREMENT; RATING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 79959563134     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.885120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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