A sparsity-driven approach for joint SAR imaging and phase error correction

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2075-2088

  Önhon, N Özben ^a   Çetin, Müjdat ^a  

^a SABANCI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Autofocus; phase errors; regularization; sparsity; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

AUTO-FOCUS; PHASE ERRORS; REGULARIZATION; SPARSITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR);

ALGORITHMS; ERROR COMPENSATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84859062061     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2011.2179056     Document Type: Article

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