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 …

Robust two-dimensional spatial-variant map-drift algorithm for UAV SAR autofocusing

G Wang, M Zhang, Y Huang, L Zhang, F Wang - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
Autofocus has attracted wide attention for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) systems, because autofocus process is crucial and difficult when the phase …

An improved time-domain autofocus method based on 3-D motion errors estimation

T Zhang, G Liao, Y Li, T Gu, T Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spatial-variant phase errors (PEs) are important factors which defocus the synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) image. In time-domain SAR imaging, the exact calculation of instantaneous …

A modified factorized geometrical autofocus method for wide angle SAR

H Li, Z Suo, C Zheng, Z Li… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wide-Angle (WA) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has shown remarkable performance in
high-resolution mapping, and its mostly used imaging algorithm, fast factorized back …

Motion compensation/autofocus in airborne synthetic aperture radar: A review

J Chen, M Xing, H Yu, B Liang, J Peng… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Air-and spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide a large number of high-
resolution images for microwave remote sensing applications, such as geoscience and …

Wavenumber-domain autofocusing for highly squinted UAV SAR imagery

L Zhang, J Sheng, M Xing, Z Qiao… - IEEE Sensors …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Being capable of enhancing the flexibility and observing ability of synthetic aperture radar
(SAR), squint mode is one of the most essential operating modes in SAR applications …

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 …

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 …

An improved spatially variant MOCO approach based on an MDA for high-Resolution UAV SAR imaging with large measurement errors

Y Ren, S Tang, Q Dong, G Sun, P Guo, C Jiang, J Han… - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
For unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, motion errors
cannot be obtained accurately when high precision motion sensors are not equipped on the …

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 …