Detection and estimation with RADARSAT-2 moving-object detection experiment modes

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3527-3543

  Dragošević, Marina V ^a   Burwash, Wesley ^b   Chiu, Shen ^c  

^a MDTerraBytes Inc   (Canada)

^b MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates   (Canada)

^c DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Direction of arrival estimation; ground moving target indication (GMTI); multidimensional signal detection; RADARSAT 2; space technology; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SIGNAL DETECTION; RADARSAT-2; SPACE TECHNOLOGIES;

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL; EXPERIMENTS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RADARSAT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE TECHNOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY;

EID: 84865685038     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2184798     Document Type: Article

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