Compensation for the NsRCM and phase error after polar format resampling for airborne spotlight SAR raw data of high resolution

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 165-169

  Yang, Lei ^a   Xing, Mengdao ^a   Wang, Yong ^b   Zhang, Lei ^a   Bao, Zheng ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Motion compensation (MoCo); Nonsystematic range cell migration (NsRCM); Polar format algorithm (PFA); Spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION; MOTION ERRORS; POLAR FORMAT ALGORITHM; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; RANGE CELL MIGRATION; RANGE MIGRATION; SAR RAW DATA; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY;

ALGORITHMS; ERROR COMPENSATION; MOTION COMPENSATION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84879133411     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2196676     Document Type: Article

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