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Video synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is attracting more attention in recent years due to its abilities of high resolution, high frame rate and advantages in continuous observation. Generally, the polar format algorithm (PFA) is an efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jiawei Jiang , Yinwei Li , Shaowen Luo , Ping Li , Yiming Zhu

The Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) is a time domain matched filtering technique to form synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. To produce high quality BPA images, precise navigation data for the radar platform must be known. Any error in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Colton Lindstrom , Randall Christensen , Jacob Gunther

The design of image reconstruction algorithms for near-range handheld synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems has gained increasing popularity due to the promising performance of portable millimeter-wave (MMW) imaging devices in various…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Lei Wang , Xianxun Yao , Tiancheng Song , Guolin Sun

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are often blurred by phase perturbations induced by uncompensated sensor motion and /or unknown propagation effects caused by turbulent media. To get refocused images, autofocus proves to be useful…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-03 Xinhua Mao , Daiyin Zhu , Zhaoda Zhu

Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radar (ROSAR) can generate a 360$^\circ$ image of its surrounding environment using the collected data from a single moving track. Due to its non-linear track, the Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) is commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Wei Zhao , Cai Wen , Quan Yuan , Rong Zheng

Conventional two-dimensional (2-D) autofocus algorithms blindly estimate the phase error in the sense that they do not exploit any a priori information on the structure of the 2-D phase error. As such, they often suffer from low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Xinhua Mao

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) requires precise time-of-flight measurements of the transmitted/received waveform to produce well-focused imagery. It is not uncommon for errors in these measurements to be present resulting in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Isaac D. Gerg , Vishal Monga

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) requires precise positional and environmental information to produce well-focused output during the image reconstruction step. However, errors in these measurements are commonly present resulting in defocused…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 Isaac Gerg , Vishal Monga

In video synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging mode, the polar format algorithm (PFA) is more computational effective than the backprojection algorithm (BPA). However, the two-dimensional (2-D) interpolation in PFA greatly affects its…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Jiawei Jiang , Yinwei Li , Qibin Zheng

A ray-tracing (RT) enhanced back-projection algorithm (RT-BPA) for microwave imaging in multipath environments is presented. By tightly incorporating the concept of ray-tracing into a generalized version of traditional BPA, this method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Han Na , Quanfeng Wang , Matthias Saurer , Meisong Tong , Thomas F. Eibert

We present a simple method to enable processing of Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery distributed in Polar Format (PFA) using standard Range-Doppler (RDA) geometry algorithms. Our approach is applicable to PFA SAR images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Piyush S. Agram

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

In this paper, we develop a novel reduced-rank space-time adaptive processing (STAP) algorithm based on adaptive basis function approximation (ABFA) for airborne radar applications. The proposed algorithm employs the well-known framework of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-22 R. Fa , R. C. de Lamare

Accurate, high-resolution, and real-time DOA estimation is a cornerstone of environmental perception in automotive radar systems. While sparse signal recovery techniques offer super-resolution and high-precision estimation, their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Longxin Bai , Jingchao Zhang , Liyan Qiao

In this paper, SAR image reconstruction with joint phase error estimation (autofocusing) is formulated as an inverse problem. An optimization model utilising a sparsity-enforcing Cauchy regularizer is proposed, and an alternating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Zi-Yao Zhang , Odysseas Pappas , Igor G. Rizaev , Alin Achim

Filtered backprojection (FBP) algorithm is a popular choice for complicated trajectory SAR image formation processing due to its inherent nonlinear motion compensation capability. However, how to efficiently autofocus the defocused FBP…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Xinhua Mao , Lan Ding , Yudong Zhang , Ronghui Zhan , Shan Li

Synthetic Aperture RADAR is a radar imaging technique in which the relative motion of the sensor is used to synthesize a very long antenna and obtain high spatial resolution. The increasing interest of the scientific community to simplify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-05 Cataldo Guaragnella , Tiziana D'Orazio

Radar is a low-cost and ubiquitous automotive sensor, but is limited by array resolution and sensitivity when performing direction of arrival analysis. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is a class of techniques to improve azimuth resolution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-16 Leyla A. Kabuli , Griffin Foster

Compressive focal plane arrays (FPA) enable cost-effective high-resolution (HR) imaging by acquisition of several multiplexed measurements on a low-resolution (LR) sensor. Multiplexed encoding of the visual scene is typically performed via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Alper Güngör , M. Umut Bahceci , Yasin Ergen , Ahmet Sözak , O. Oner Ekiz , Tolga Yelboga , Tolga Çukur

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Imaging methods are usually based on algorithms of match-filtering type, without considering the scene's characteristic, which causes limited imaging quality. Besides, post-processing steps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Shunjun Wei , Jun Shi
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