Title : 
Time-frequency based radar image formation
         
        
        
            Author_Institution : 
Radar Div., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper briefly describes the background of synthetic aperture radar imaging and the time-varying behavior of Doppler frequency shifts in radar signals, discusses the conventional Fourier-based image formation and its problems, and introduces the time-frequency based image formation algorithm and its mathematical model, implementation and applications.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Doppler radar; Fourier transforms; radar imaging; radar theory; synthetic aperture radar; time-frequency analysis; time-varying systems; Doppler frequency shifts; Fourier-based image formation; radar image formation; synthetic aperture radar imaging; time-frequency based image formation; time-varying radar signals; Doppler radar; Fourier transforms; Motion compensation; Radar antennas; Radar imaging; Radar tracking; Signal resolution; Synthetic aperture radar; Target tracking; Time frequency analysis;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Image Processing, 2004. ICIP '04. 2004 International Conference on
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8554-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICIP.2004.1418674