Synthetic aperture radio telescopes

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 14-29

  Levanda, Ronny ^a   Leshem, Amir ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAY PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RADIO TELESCOPES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DYNAMIC RANGE; ESTIMATION PROBLEM; FOURIER INVERSION; IMAGING PROCESS; MEASUREMENT EQUATIONS; MULTIPLE BEAM; SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUE;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 85032751222     PISSN: 10535888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2009.934719     Document Type: Article

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