Experimental verification of SAR-GMTI improvement through antenna switching

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 2, 2010, Pages 2066-2075

  Cerutti Maori, Delphine ^a   Gierull, Christoph H ^b   Ender, Joachim H G ^a  

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

^b DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antenna switching; Ground moving target indication (GMTI); Radar detection; Radar position estimation; Radar signal analysis; Radar velocity measurement; Spatial diversity; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA SWITCHING; GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION; RADAR DETECTION; RADAR POSITION ESTIMATION; RADAR SIGNAL ANALYSIS; RADAR VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL DIVERSITY;

ANTENNA GROUNDS; ANTENNAS; EXPERIMENTS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; RADAR SYSTEMS; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; SWITCHING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRACKING RADAR; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

RADAR MEASUREMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOMOGENEITY; RADAR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THEORETICAL STUDY; VELOCITY;

EID: 82655178694     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2037010     Document Type: Article

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