Matched Filter Optical Processor

1 April 1974

journal article
Published by Optica Publishing Group in Applied Optics

Vol. 13 (4) , 925-930
https://doi.org/10.1364/ao.13.000925

Abstract

A new tracking optical processor that uses a computer generated matched filter to process the synthetic aperture radar data is described. The general consideration in generating the matched filter is discussed in detail and some experimental results are presented.

Keywords

DISCRETE FOURIER TRANSFORMS
MATCHED FILTERING
OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING
OPTICAL ELEMENTS
OPTICAL PROCESSING DEVICES
SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR

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