Implementation of a co/decoding method in SAR processing based on time domain correlation

Applications which could benefit from the use of an artificial device capable of encoding the SAR signal have been recently presented in literature. In this paper an implementation of a processing algorithm suitable to exploit such a device is described. Two general purpose figures of merit are proposed for the algorithm and the preliminary results of their theoretical and experimental evaluation are presented.

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