Contrast Optimized PGA Algorithm for P-band UWB SAR

Author

Daoxiang, An ; Xiaotao, Huang ; Liang, Wang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha

fYear

2006

fDate

16-19 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The phase gradient autofocus (PGA) technique has been proved to be a superior method for higher order autofocus. However, given the different nature of P-band ultra-wideband synthetic aperture radar (UWB SAR) imagery and very low signal-to-clutter ratio in the data, conventional PGA algorithm usually fail to yield robust focusing result on raw data without distortion. We proposed the modified PGA algorithm that combines the traditional PGA with contrast optimization principle and reference scatterer coregistration. Our method is successfully applied on raw P-band UWB SAR image and excellent results are attained

Keywords

gradient methods; radar clutter; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; ultra wideband radar; P-band ultra-wideband synthetic aperture radar imagery; PGA; UWB SAR; phase gradient autofocus technique; Azimuth; Degradation; Electronics packaging; Focusing; Optimization methods; Phase distortion; Phase estimation; Radar scattering; Redundancy; Synthetic aperture radar; P-band UWB SAR; PGA; contrast optimization; reference scatterer coregistration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar, 2006. CIE '06. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9582-4

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9583-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICR.2006.343211

Filename

4148317