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Two-Stage Focusing Algorithm for Highly Squinted Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
Highly squinted synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data focusing is a challenging problem with difficulty to correct the severe range-azimuth coupling and motion errors. Squint minimization processing with the range-walk correction is widely adapted to simplify the decoupling processing, while it destructs the azimuth-shift invariance of conventional SAR transfer function. In this paper, a two-stage focusing algorithm (TSFA) is proposed to generate a focused imagery for the highly squinted airborne SAR. In the proposed algorithm, conventional range cell migration correction and azimuth matched filtering are performed and a fine focusing stage is established to correct the azimuth variance. In the fine focusing procedure, the coarse-focused image is divided into azimuth blocks to accommodate the correction of azimuth-variant residual range migration and phase terms. Moreover, precise motion compensation is embedded into the TSFA procedure to form an accurate airborne SAR imagery, which may be called the extended TSFA. In order to balance the processing precision and computational load, optimal selection of block size is investigated in detail. Both simulated and real measured airborne SAR data sets are used to validate the proposed approaches.
Two-Stage Focusing Algorithm for Highly Squinted Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
Highly squinted synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data focusing is a challenging problem with difficulty to correct the severe range-azimuth coupling and motion errors. Squint minimization processing with the range-walk correction is widely adapted to simplify the decoupling processing, while it destructs the azimuth-shift invariance of conventional SAR transfer function. In this paper, a two-stage focusing algorithm (TSFA) is proposed to generate a focused imagery for the highly squinted airborne SAR. In the proposed algorithm, conventional range cell migration correction and azimuth matched filtering are performed and a fine focusing stage is established to correct the azimuth variance. In the fine focusing procedure, the coarse-focused image is divided into azimuth blocks to accommodate the correction of azimuth-variant residual range migration and phase terms. Moreover, precise motion compensation is embedded into the TSFA procedure to form an accurate airborne SAR imagery, which may be called the extended TSFA. In order to balance the processing precision and computational load, optimal selection of block size is investigated in detail. Both simulated and real measured airborne SAR data sets are used to validate the proposed approaches.
Two-Stage Focusing Algorithm for Highly Squinted Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging
Zhang, Lei (author) / Wang, Guanyong / Qiao, Zhijun / Wang, Hongxian / Sun, Ligang
2017
Article (Journal)
English
Local classification TIB:
770/3710/5670
BKL:
38.03
Methoden und Techniken der Geowissenschaften
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74.41
Luftaufnahmen, Photogrammetrie
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