An autofocus approach for UAV-based ultrawideband ultrawidebeam SAR data with frequency-dependent and 2-D space-variant motion errors

Z Ding, L Li, Y Wang, T Zhang, W Gao… - … on Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned-aerial-vehicle-based (UAV-based) ultrawideband and ultrawidebeam (UWB)
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is very sensitive to atmospheric turbulence and suffers from …

Quasi-polar-based FFBP algorithm for miniature UAV SAR imaging without navigational data

S Zhou, L Yang, L Zhao, G Bi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Because of flexible geometric configuration and trajectory designation, time-domain
algorithms become popular for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar …

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 …

Time-domain autofocus for ultrahigh resolution SAR based on azimuth scaling transformation

H Lin, J Chen, M Xing, X Chen, N Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For ultrahigh resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR), azimuth spectrum aliasing limits the
application of frequency-domain autofocus algorithms. Therefore, time-domain autofocus …

Ultrawideband ISAR imaging of maneuvering targets with joint high-order motion compensation and azimuth scaling

S Shao, H Liu, L Zhang, P Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ultrawideband (UWB) radar can achieve ultrahigh-resolution inverse synthetic aperture
radar (ISAR) imaging of noncooperative targets by transmitting UWB signals. However, the …

Wide-beam SAR autofocus based on blind resampling

J Chen, H Yu - Science China Information Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Long synthetic aperture time and large instantaneous beam can turn airborne synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) autofocus into a wide-beam autofocus problem; ie, the motion error is …

Autofocus correction of residual RCM for VHR SAR sensors with light-small aircraft

N Li, R Wang, Y Deng, W Yu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the light weight and small size, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors with light-
small aircraft are very sensitive to atmospheric turbulences, which cause serious trajectory …

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 …

An improved map-drift algorithm for unmanned aerial vehicle SAR imaging

Y Huang, F Liu, Z Chen, J Li… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is usually sensitive to
trajectory deviations that cause severe motion error in the recorded data. Because of the …

Blind NCS-based autofocus for airborne wide-beam SAR imaging

J Chen, J Zhang, H Yu, G Xu, B Liang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The improvement in azimuth resolution and/or the increase in the instantaneous beam width
can result in a wide-beam autofocus problem in airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) …