Gigapixel spotlight synthetic aperture radar backprojection using clusters of GPUs and CUDA

IEEE National Radar Conference - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 0853-0858

  Benson, Thomas M ^a   Campbell, Daniel P ^a   Cook, Daniel A ^a  

^a GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACK-PROJECTION; COMPUTATIONAL LOADS; COMPUTING NODES; DATA SETS; GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNITS; MULTIPLE NODES; NON-PLANAR SURFACES; OPTIMIZATION APPROACH; PARALLELIZATIONS; PLANARITY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84864242049     PISSN: 10975659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RADAR.2012.6212256     Document Type: Conference Paper

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