Efficient time-domain image formation with precise topography accommodation for general bistatic SAR configurations

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2949-2966

  Rodriguez Cassola, Marc ^a   Prats, Pau ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION GEOMETRY; AIRBORNE EXPERIMENTS; ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BACK-PROJECTION; BISTATIC; BISTATIC SAR; BISTATIC SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; COMMON STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; ELLIPTICAL COORDINATES; FOURIER DOMAINS; MONOSTATIC; NYQUIST; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; SUB-APERTURES; SUBAPERTURE PROCESSING; TERRASAR-X; TIME DOMAIN; TIME-DOMAIN APPROACH; TOPOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; EXPERIMENTS; IMAGING SYSTEMS; TOPOGRAPHY;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 80053936055     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2011.6034676     Document Type: Article

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