The gridding method for image reconstruction of nonuniform aperture synthesis radiometers

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 274-278

  Feng, Li ^a   Li, Qingxia ^a   Chen, Ke ^a   Li, Yufang ^a   Tong, Xiaolin ^a   Wang, Xinqiang ^a   Lu, Hailiang ^a   Li, Yan ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Antenna array; gridding method; image reconstruction; nonuniform aperture synthesis radiometer (NASR); visibility sample

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; VISIBILITY;

APERTURE SYNTHESIS RADIOMETERS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE IMAGES; DENSITY COMPENSATION; EARTH REMOTE SENSING; GRIDDING METHOD; NON-UNIFORM FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; RECONSTRUCTED IMAGE; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DOMAINS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

EID: 84906950901     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2014.2335413     Document Type: Article

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