• DocumentCode
    1103074
  • Title

    Digital SAR processing using a fast polynomial transform

  • Author

    Truong, T.K. ; Reed, Irving S. ; Lipes, Richard G. ; Rubin, Arthur L. ; Butman, Stanley A.

  • Author_Institution
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  • Volume
    32
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1984
  • fDate
    4/1/1984 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    419
  • Lastpage
    425
  • Abstract
    In this paper, a new digital processing algorithm is developed for producing images from SEASAT synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. For reasons of ecomony, SEASAT presently operates in the stripmapping mode rather than the potentially higher resolution spotlight mode [1]. This algorithm applies the fast polynomial transform (FPT) for computing the two-dimensional cyclic correlation of the raw echo data with the impulse response of a point target. This two-dimensional correlation algorithm solves the range migration problem. It is demonstrated that this SAR processing technique is readily implemented on a general purpose computer. Actual results of SEASAT SAR imagery are given in this paper.
  • Keywords
    Azimuth; Convolution; Delay; History; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Matched filters; Polynomials; Synthetic aperture radar; Two dimensional displays;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0096-3518
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TASSP.1984.1164307
  • Filename
    1164307