High range resolution radar using narrowband linear chirps offset in frequency

RT Lord, MR Inggs - Proceedings of the 1997 South African …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a method to combine a number of narrow-bandwidth chirp pulses
stepped in frequency in order to achieve high range resolution in SAR images. The …

High resolution SAR processing using stepped-frequencies

RT Lord, MR Inggs - … . Remote Sensing-A Scientific Vision for …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper demonstrates a method to produce high resolution SAR images using stepped-
frequencies. An advantage of the stepped-frequency approach is the reduction of the …

Stepped frequency chirp signal SAR imaging

D Hongxing - 2007 1st Asian and Pacific Conference on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To achieve high range resolution using the stepped frequency chirp signal, two or more
chirp waveforms are sequentially transmitted and received at stepped carrier frequencies in …

A prototype for stepped-frequency SAR dechirp imaging system and experimental verification

X Zhang, W Zhai, Y Zhang - 2009 Asia Pacific Microwave …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In SAR imaging, range resolution is inversely proportional to the transmitted signal
bandwidth. Generally, for technological or cost reasons relative to radar hardware, the ability …

[PDF][PDF] Aspects of radar imaging using frequency-stepped chirp signals

Q Zhang, YQ Jin - EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2006 - Springer
The high-resolution, frequency-stepped chirp signal can be applied to radar systems
employing narrow-bandwidth chirp pulses, in order to enhance the range resolution, and to …

A stepped chirp technique for range resolution enhancement

F McGroary, K Lindell - NTC'91-National Telesystems …, 1991 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel stepped frequency chirp waveform concept for increasing the range resolution of an
existing pulse compression radar is presented. The stepped frequency chirp technique is …

The use of a frequency domain stepped frequency technique to obtain high range resolution on the CSIR X-band SAR system

W Nel, J Tait, R Lord, A Wilkinson - IEEE AFRICON. 6th Africon …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel frequency domain stepped frequency processing (FD-SFP) technique to obtain high
radar range resolution was developed by AJ Wilkinson in 1997. Range resolution is directly …

Stepped-frequency waveform design for SAR imaging and radial velocity compensation

L Haiying, Y Ruliang - Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Radar …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The stepped-frequency waveform is used to obtain large effective bandwidth for high range
resolution by transmitting the pulses with sequentially changing carrier frequency, so that is …

A chirp scaling approach for processing squint mode SAR data

GW Davidson, IG Cumming… - IEEE Transactions on …, 1996 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Image formation from squint mode synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is limited by image
degradations caused by neglecting the range-variant filtering required by secondary range …

Improving the focusing properties of SAR processors for wide-band and wide-beam low frequency imaging

A Potsis, A Reigber, J Mittermayer… - … 2001. Scanning the …, 2001 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An increasing amount of interest has been evolved in VHF/UHF SAR applications. These
radars have proven to be a very powerful method for underground and obscured object …