Synthetic aperture radar 3D feature extraction for arbitrary flight paths

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2065-2084

  Jackson, Julie A ^a   Moses, Randolph L ^b  

^a Air Force Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-D FEATURE EXTRACTION; BISTATIC; MODEL-ORDER SELECTION; MONOSTATIC; PARAMETER ESTIMATE; PARAMETRIC MODELS; PHASE HISTORY; SHAPE CLASSIFICATION; SPARSE APERTURE;

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84863884456     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2012.6237579     Document Type: Article

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