High-resolution planetary imaging via spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar

Author

Webb, Jennifer L H ; Munson, David C., Jr. ; Stacy, Nick J S

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1994

fDate

13-16 Nov 1994

Firstpage

451

Abstract

Considers the application of a spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging technique to the problem of high-resolution lunar imaging and other related radar astronomy problems. This approach offers improved image quality, compared with conventional processing, at the expense of increased computational effort. Results of the processing of lunar data acquired with the 12.6 cm wavelength radar system at Arecibo Observatory are presented, and compared with the best available published result, which uses focusing techniques from strip-mode SAR

Keywords

Moon; image resolution; lunar surface; radar applications; radar imaging; radioastronomical techniques; synthetic aperture radar; 12.6 cm; SAR; UHF; computational effort; high-resolution lunar imaging; high-resolution planetary imaging; image quality; imaging technique; radar astronomy; spotlight-mode synthetic aperture radar; Astronomy; Doppler radar; Energy resolution; Focusing; High-resolution imaging; Moon; Radar imaging; Reflectivity; Spatial resolution; 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.1994.413354

Filename

413354