Efficient motion compensation of a moving object on SAR imagery based on velocity correlation function

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 936-946

  Arii, Motofumi ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI SPACE SOFTWARE CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autofocus; Inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR); Motion compensation; Velocity correlation function (VCF); Velocity correlation map (VCM)

Indexed keywords

AUTO-FOCUS; AZIMUTH DIRECTION; COMPUTATION LOADS; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (ISAR); MOTION COMPENSATION ALGORITHM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; VELOCITY CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; VELOCITY CORRELATIONS;

INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; MOTION COMPENSATION;

VELOCITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; FILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84890975552     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2245901     Document Type: Article

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