A geometrical-based simulator for target recognition in high-resolution SAR images

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 958-962

  Tang, Kan ^a   Sun, Xian ^a   Sun, Hao ^a   Wang, Hongqi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dihedral corner; high resolution images; scattering; synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image simulation; target recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; CORNER MODELS; DIHEDRAL CORNER; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; HIGH-RESOLUTION SAR; IN-VEHICLE; MIXED MODELS; SAR IMAGES; SCATTERING MODEL; SCATTERING PATTERN; SIMULATED RESULTS; STRUCTURE INFORMATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TARGET RECOGNITION; TRACING TECHNIQUE;

SCATTERING; SIMULATORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VISUALIZATION;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 84862792924     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2187426     Document Type: Article

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