Flight path optimization for resolution and coverage in synthetic aperture radar

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Altrichter, Scott
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2015-08
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To investigate geometric diversity and the trade-off between resolution and coverage, we develop a mathematical tool to quantify the attainable resolution of the target scene. This tool involves the data-collection manifold (DCM) whose volume corresponds directly to the image resolution at a point. Adding together these manifold contributions for each target gives us an objective functional that is determined by resolution and scene coverage.
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August 2015
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13015/1543
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