A multiscale approach to a synthetic aperture radar in dispersive random media

作者:Garnier Josselin*; Solna Knut
来源:Inverse Problems, 2013, 29(5): 054006.
DOI:10.1088/0266-5611/29/5/054006

摘要

We consider synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation in the situation when the propagation medium is random and dispersive. The propagation model is the Klein-Gordon equation with a random index of refraction and a random dispersive term. We show via a multiscale analysis how medium heterogeneities and dispersion affect the image. In fact, in a situation with a strong source chirp signal, the main effect of the medium heterogeneities is to introduce random phase distortions in the SAR data. We carry out a novel scaling analysis that gives a precise characterization of this canonical phase perturbation and how it affects image resolution and stability. The main effect of the phase perturbation is to reduce the azimuthal resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio and we quantify this performance degradation.

  • 出版日期2013-5