An advanced SAR simulator of three-dimensional structures combining geometrical optics and full-wave electromagnetic methods

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 776-784

  Kulpa, Krzysztof S ^a   Samczyński, Piotr ^a   Malanowski, Mateusz ^a   Gromek, Artur ^a   Gromek, Damian ^a   Gwarek, Wojciech ^a   Salski, B ^a   Tański, Grzegorz ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Mindberries ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Digital terrain model (DTM) modeling; Finitedifference time domain (FDTD); SAR simulation; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHODS; ELECTROMAGNETIC SIMULATION; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAINS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING SYSTEMS; SAR SIMULATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR SIMULATORS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ELECTROMAGNETIC METHOD; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; GEOMETRY; SOFTWARE; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

EID: 84890441161     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2283267     Document Type: Article

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