Airborne SAR Moving Target Signatures and Imagery Based on LVD

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 5958-5971

  Yang, Lei ^a   Bi, Guoan ^a   Xing, Mengdao ^b   Zhang, Liren ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Ground moving target imaging (GMTIm); Lv's distribution (LVD); synthetic aperture radar (SAR); Time frequency representation (TFR)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; NETWORK SECURITY; RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

AIRBORNE SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; DOPPLER CENTROID FREQUENCY; GROUND MOVING TARGETS; LINEAR FREQUENCY MODULATED SIGNALS; LV'S DISTRIBUTION (LVD); POLAR FORMAT ALGORITHM; SAR IMAGE FORMATION; TIME-FREQUENCY REPRESENTATIONS;

RADAR IMAGING;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ALGORITHM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; IMAGERY; IMAGING METHOD; KINEMATICS; LINEARITY; MOVEMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POINT SOURCE; SPECTRUM; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 85027949751     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2429678     Document Type: Article

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