Digital spotlighting and coherent subaperture image formation for stripmap synthetic aperture radar

Author

Soumekh, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Amherst, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

13-16 Nov 1994

Firstpage

476

Abstract

The paper presents a method for imaging from the data obtained from a synthetic aperture radar that does not utilize spotlighting. The SAR database, that is commonly encountered in reconnaissance imaging with stripmap SAR, is passed through a digital spotlighting algorithm for range and cross-range gating. The resultant filtered SAR data is used in the high-resolution spotlight SAR inversion to image the desired target area. A subaperture processing and coherent imaging method to implement the algorithm is presented

Keywords

airborne radar; radar imaging; remote sensing by radar; synthetic aperture radar; coherent imaging method; coherent subaperture image formation; cross-range gating; digital spotlighting; filtered SAR data; range; reconnaissance imaging; stripmap synthetic aperture radar; subaperture processing; target area; Airborne radar; Antenna radiation patterns; High-resolution imaging; Image databases; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Radar tracking; Reconnaissance; Synthetic aperture radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 1994. Proceedings. ICIP-94., IEEE International Conference

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6952-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.1994.413359

Filename

413359