Unambiguous SAR signal reconstruction from nonuniform displaced phase center sampling

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 260-264

  Krieger, Gerhard ^a   Gebert, Nicolas ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Azimuth ambiguities; Digital beamforming; Displaced phase center antenna (DPCA); High resolution wide swath SAR; Interferometry; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; OPTIMIZATION; RADAR ANTENNAS; SAMPLING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TRANSCEIVERS;

AZIMUTH AMBIGUITIES; DIGITAL BEAMFORMING; DISPLACED PHASE CENTER ANTENNA; HIGH-RESOLUTION WIDE-SWATH SAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 8344249432     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2004.832700     Document Type: Article

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