A robust motion compensation approach for UAV SAR imagery

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3202-3218

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Qiao, Zhijun ^b   Xing, Meng Dao ^a   Yang, Lei ^a   Bao, Zheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PAN AMERICAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Local maximum likelihood (LML); motion compensation (MOCO); phase gradient autofocus (PGA); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); weighted phase gradient autofocus (WPGA)

Indexed keywords

AUTO-FOCUS; LOCAL MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD (LML); MOTION ERRORS; PHASE ERROR; PHASE GRADIENT; RANGE CELL MIGRATION; REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS; SAR DATA; SAR IMAGERY; SUBAPERTURE; THREE-STEP PROCESS; TRAJECTORY DEVIATION; WEIGHT CONSTRAINTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; MOTION COMPENSATION; REMOTE SENSING; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA SET; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TURBULENCE; UNMANNED VEHICLE; WEIGHT;

EID: 84864278986     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2180392     Document Type: Article

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