Vessel refocusing and velocity estimation on SAR imagery using the fractional fourier transform

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1670-1684

  Pelich, Ramona ^a,b   Longepe, Nicolas ^a   Mercier, Gregoire ^b   Hajduch, Guillaume ^a   Garello, Rene ^b  

^a CLS   (France)

^b INSTITUT MINES TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Azimuth speed; Fractional Fourier transform (FrFT); Moving vessel; Refocusing; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SHIPS; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

DECOMPOSITION METHODS; FRACTIONAL FOURIER TRANSFORMS; MOVING VESSEL; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; REFOCUSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGERY; TIME-FREQUENCY PLANES; VELOCITY ESTIMATION;

RADAR IMAGING;

AZIMUTH; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOURIER TRANSFORM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADAR IMAGERY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VELOCITY; VESSEL;

EID: 84945398324     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2487378     Document Type: Article

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