Image defocus in an airborne UWB VHR microwave photonic SAR: Analysis and compensation

W Xu, B Wang, M Xiang, R Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the exploration of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the requirements for its functionality,
precision, and response time are inevitably increasing, in which the technical core is the …

Analysis and Compensation for Systematical Errors in Airborne Microwave Photonic SAR Imaging by 2-D Autofocus

M Chen, X Qiu, R Li, W Li, K Fu - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the area of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the ultrahigh resolution is always a continuous
pursuit for researchers. To realize ultrahigh resolution, microwave photonics technology is …

A processing framework for airborne microwave photonic SAR with resolution up to 0.03 m: Motion estimation and compensation

Y Deng, M Xing, GC Sun, W Liu, R Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with an imaging resolution of up to 0.03 m is
developed. However, the imaging process suffers from motion errors with 2-D spatial-variant …

A novel autofocus framework for UAV SAR imagery: Motion error extraction from symmetric triangular FMCW differential signal

W Xu, B Wang, M Xiang, C Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) installed on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has drawn
increasing attention in the area of remote sensing due to its high spatial resolution and low …

Processing of airborne microwave photonic SAR raw data with inaccurate RSF

J Chen, M Li, M Xing, G Xu, Y Zhu… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to system instability and other reasons, the actual range sampling frequency (RSF) of
the system may deviate from the ideal value for the microwave photonic synthetic aperture …

Nonparametric Full-Aperture Autofocus Imaging for Microwave Photonic SAR

J Chen, R Xiong, H Yu, G Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave photonic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is capable of realizing large scene
remote sensing observation with centimeter or even millimeter resolution, which greatly …

Full-aperture processing of airborne microwave photonic SAR raw data

J Chen, M Li, H Yu, M Xing - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At present, the resolution of the most advanced airborne microwave photonic synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) can reach the order of centimeters or even millimeters, so the 2-D …

A modified map-drift algorithm for SAR autofocusing

W Wang, D An, Y Luo, Z Zhou… - 2018 Asia-Pacific …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Trajectory deviations in airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) will induce phase errors and
degrade the quality of SAR images. For obtaining high resolution SAR images, motion …

Microwave photonic SAR high-precision imaging based on optimal subaperture division

Y Hai, Z Li, J Wu, Y Li, Y Xiao, W Li, R Li… - … on Geoscience and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Microwave photonic synthetic aperture radar (MWP-SAR) offers a larger signal bandwidth
than conventional SAR, and its theoretical resolution can be improved to centimeter level. To …

Knowledge-aided 2-D autofocus for spotlight SAR range migration algorithm imagery

X Mao, X He, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With continuous improvement of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) resolution, the 2-D
defocus effect in SAR image resulting from uncompensated motion error has made …