Multichannel synthetic aperture radar signatures and imaging of a moving target

作者:Jao Jen King*; Yegulalp Ali
来源:Inverse Problems, 2013, 29(5): 054009.
DOI:10.1088/0266-5611/29/5/054009

摘要

An airborne multichannel synthetic aperture radar imaging process is analyzed to derive spatial image and spectral signatures of a point target moving at a constant velocity. These signatures are expressed in terms of the moving target focal position that changes with the antenna array element location and the relative target-to-radar velocity vector and, as a result, the geometric transformation between two coordinate frames. One frame is stationary while the other moves with the target. The resulting target image spectrum is used to formulate a moving target image refocusing algorithm and a calibration approach useful to compensate the image modulation due to the directional antenna pattern effects. The potential applications of the multichannel signatures to target motion estimation and adaptive image processing will be explored.

  • 出版日期2013-5

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