Spaceborne radar imaging of maritime moving targets with the Cosmo-SkyMed SAR system

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2797-2810

  Martorella, Marco ^a   Pastina, Debora ^b   Berizzi, Fabrizio ^a   Lombardo, Pierfrancesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR); radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; RADAR IMAGING; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

COOPERATIVE TARGETS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HOME LAND SECURITY; INVERSE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS (ISAR); MARITIME SURVEILLANCE; PROCESSING CHAIN; SPACEBORNE RADAR; SUPER RESOLUTION;

RADAR ASTRONOMY;

EID: 84906945980     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2321708     Document Type: Article

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