Special phenomena of the shadow region in the high resolution synthetic aperture radar image due to synthetic aperture

Journal of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1052-1070

  Zhang, Yueting ^a,b,c   Ding, Chibiao ^b,d   Chen, Hongzhen ^a,b,c   Wang, Hongqi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology   (China)

Author keywords

Imaging; Ku band; Millimeter wave; SAR image understanding; Shadow enhancement

Indexed keywords

IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MILLIMETER WAVES;

FIXED FOCUS; FRAME-WORK; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; KU-BAND; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; MICROWAVE IMAGING; PHASE COMPENSATION; QUADRATIC PHASE ERROR; SAR IMAGES; SHADOW REGIONS; SPECIAL MECHANISMS; TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUES; TYPICAL APPLICATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84868625751     PISSN: 18666892     EISSN: 18666906     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10762-012-9924-8     Document Type: Article

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