Wide-bandwidth continuous-wave monostatic/bistatic synthetic aperture radar imaging

Author

Soumekh, Mehrdad

Author_Institution

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

fYear

1998

fDate

4-7 Oct 1998

Firstpage

361

Abstract

Monostatic and bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging systems with wide-bandwidth continuous-wave (WB-CW) sources have been utilized for military reconnaissance. The WB-CW sources are less susceptible than FM-CW sources to electronic counter measures (ECM). The main shortcoming of the WB-CW microwave illumination is that its resultant SAR echoed signal is not composed of distinct Doppler spreadings around specific tones; this creates difficulties to formulate the image formation in the WB-CW SAR systems via the conventional pulse or FM-CW SAR imaging algorithms. The paper outlines a time domain correlation (TDC) processing method and a Fourier-based processing method for image formation in WB-CW monostatic and bistatic SAR systems. Results are provided

Keywords

Fourier analysis; correlation methods; military radar; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; time-domain analysis; ECM; FM-CW SAR imaging algorithms; FM-CW sources; Fourier-based processing method; SAR imaging; WB-CW SAR systems; WB-CW microwave illumination; continuous-wave sources; echo signal; electronic counter measures; image formation; military reconnaissance; spatial frequency domain imaging; synthetic aperture radar; time domain correlation processing method; wide-bandwidth continuous-wave bistatic SAR; wide-bandwidth continuous-wave monostatic SAR; Counting circuits; Electronic countermeasures; Lighting; Microwave imaging; Military computing; Radar imaging; Radar polarimetry; Reconnaissance; Signal processing; Spaceborne radar; Synthetic aperture radar; TV; Transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 1998. ICIP 98. Proceedings. 1998 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8821-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.1998.727216

Filename

727216