An autofocus method for backprojection imagery in synthetic aperture radar

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 104-108

  Ash, Joshua N ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofocus; autoregressive backprojection (ARBP); convolution BP (CBP) imaging; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AUTO-FOCUS; AUTO-REGRESSIVE; BACK-PROJECTION; CLOSED FORM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP; GEOMETRIC INTERPRETATION; IMAGE SHARPNESS; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; IMAGING GEOMETRY; PHASE CORRECTIONS; QUARTIC POLYNOMIAL; SINGLE-PULSE; SPOTLIGHT-MODE;

POLYNOMIALS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84655163480     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2011.2161456     Document Type: Article

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