Suppression of clutter in multichannel SAR GMTI

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 4005-4013

  Sjögren, Thomas K ^a   Vu, Viet Thuy ^a   Pettersson, Mats I ^a   Wang, Feng ^a   Murdin, Daniel Jan George ^b   Gustavsson, Anders ^c   Ulander, Lars M H ^c  

^a BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Nira Dynamics   (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clutter suppression; detection; moving targets; multichannel; multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar; space time adaptive processing (STAP); Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CLUTTER (INFORMATION THEORY); ERROR DETECTION; FORESTRY; MIMO RADAR; MIMO SYSTEMS; RADAR CLUTTER; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; TARGET TRACKING;

CLUTTER SUPPRESSION; FILTER COEFFICIENTS; FINITE-IMPULSE RESPONSE; GROUND MOVING TARGET INDICATION; MOVING TARGETS; MOVING-TARGET DETECTIONS; MULTICHANNEL; MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MIMO) RADARS;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ALGORITHM; AZIMUTH; DETECTION METHOD; FILTRATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DATA PROCESSING; DETECTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RADAR;

EID: 84896402402     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2278701     Document Type: Article

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