Detection of moving targets in wideband SAR

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 780-796

  Pettersson, Mats I ^a  

^a SWEDISH DEFENCE RESEARCH AGENCY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA ARRAYS; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR CLUTTER; RADAR IMAGING; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

FAST BACKPROJECTION METHOD; MOVING TARGET DETECTION; WIDE ANTENNA BEAM;

RADAR TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 9444241594     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2004.1337454     Document Type: Article

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