Fast GMTI algorithm for traffic monitoring based on a priori knowledge

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 11 PART2, 2012, Pages 4626-4641

  Baumgartner, Stefan V ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Pulse Doppler radar; radar signal processing; road vehicle detection; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RADAR SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

AIRBORNE RADARS; COMPUTATIONAL POWER; DATA ARRAY; FOURIER; GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION; INTERSECTION POINTS; MOVING VEHICLES; MULTI-CHANNEL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION ALGORITHM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; PULSE-DOPPLER RADAR; RADAR SIGNAL PROCESSING; REAL TIME TRAFFICS; REAL-WORLD SCENARIO; ROAD VEHICLES; SINGLE-CHANNEL; TRAFFIC MONITORING; VELOCITY VECTORS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; PARAMETERIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORT VEHICLE;

EID: 84869502964     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2193133     Document Type: Article

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