Robust ground moving-target imaging using deramp-keystone processing

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 966-982

  Sun, Guangcai ^a   Xing, Mengdao ^a   Xia, Xiang Gen ^b   Wu, Yirong ^c   Bao, Zheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ELECTRONICS   (China)

Author keywords

Deramp keystone processing (DKP); Ground moving target imaging (GMTIm); Instantaneous range Doppler (IRD) algorithm

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MOTION; BASE BANDS; DERAMP-KEYSTONE PROCESSING (DKP); GROUND MOVING-TARGET IMAGING (GMTIM); PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; RANGE CELL MIGRATION; RCM CORRECTION (RCMC);

ALGORITHMS;

ARCHES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84870903631     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2204889     Document Type: Article

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