• A performance evaluation of SAR-GMTI missions for maritime applications 

      Makhoul Varona, Eduardo; Broquetas Ibars, Antoni; Ruiz Rodon, Josep; Zhan, Yu; Ceba Vega, Francisco (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015-05-01)
      Article
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      This paper proposes a new optimized multichannel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) configuration, based on receiving antennas with nonuniformly displaced phase centers, intended for ground moving target indication (GMTI) ...
    • Efficient SAR MTI simulator of marine scenes 

      Ceba Vega, Francisco (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-06)
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      [ANGLÈS] Multichannel spaceborne and airborne synthetic aperture radars (SAR) offer the opportunity to monitor maritime traffic through specially designed instruments and applying a suitable signal processing in order to ...
    • Fast simulation performance evaluation of spaceborne SAR-GMTI missions for maritime applications 

      Makhoul Varona, Eduardo; Zhan, Yu; Ceba Vega, Francisco; Broquetas Ibars, Antoni; Beaton, Alasdhair; Letterio, Federico; Tonetti, Stefania; Barbarossa, Sergio; di Lorenzo, Paolo; Maffei, Marco (VDE Conference Publications, 2014)
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      This paper presents a flexible simulator for Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI) in the frame of spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) over maritime scenarios. The simulation tool provides GMTI performance metric ...
    • Modeling fast boat motion impact on satellite SAR MTI systems 

      Ceba Vega, Francisco; Makhoul Varona, Eduardo; Broquetas Ibars, Antoni; Zhan, Yu; Beaton, Alasdhair (2015-10-01)
      Article
      Accés obert
      This letter analyzes the problems of imaging small and fast boats with synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which may experience severe defocusing and/or smearing. This situation is encountered, inter alia, in ocean traffic ...