Moving target relative speed estimation and refocusing in synthetic aperture radar images

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2426-2436

  Sjögren, Thomas K ^a   Vu, Viet T ^a   Pettersson, Mats I ^a   Gustavsson, Anders ^b   Ulander, Lars M H ^b  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHODS; FREQUENCY DOMAINS; INTEGRATION TIME; LARGE RANGE CELL MIGRATION; LOW FREQUENCY; MOVING TARGETS; PHASE COMPENSATION; RELATIVE SPEED ESTIMATIONS; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGES; SUBIMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES; TARGET ACCELERATION; UWB SAR;

ESTIMATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84863926996     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2012.6237601     Document Type: Article

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