Array Factor Forming for Image Reconstruction of One-Dimensional Nonuniform Aperture Synthesis Radiometers

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 237-241

  Feng, Li ^a   Wu, Minghu ^a   Li, Qingxia ^b   Chen, Ke ^b   Li, Yufang ^b   He, Zhangqing ^a   Tong, Jing ^a   Tu, Lingying ^a   Xie, Honggang ^a   Lu, Hailiang ^b  

^a HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Array factor forming (AFF); image reconstruction; nonuniform aperture synthesis radiometer (NASR); reconstruction quality

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERPOLATION; RADIOMETERS;

APERTURE SYNTHESIS RADIOMETERS; ARRAY CONFIGURATIONS; ARRAY FACTORS; COMPARISON RESULT; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; NUMERICAL RESULTS; RECONSTRUCTION QUALITY;

MATRIX ALGEBRA;

EID: 84953242197     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2507623     Document Type: Article

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