Staggered SAR: High-resolution wide-swath imaging by continuous PRI variation

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4462-4479

  Villano, Michelangelo ^a   Krieger, Gerhard ^a   Moreira, Alberto ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Interpolation; microwave remote sensing; radar data processing; synthetic aperture radar; System analysis and design

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; DATA PROCESSING; INTERPOLATION; RADAR ANTENNAS; REMOTE SENSING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AZIMUTH RESOLUTION; DIGITAL BEAM FORMING; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PULSE REPETITION INTERVALS; RADAR DATA PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

AZIMUTH; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SOLAR RADIATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84896388107     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2282192     Document Type: Article

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