Feature preserving autofocus algorithm for phase error correction of SAR images

H Lee, CS Jung, KW Kim - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Autofocus is an essential technique for airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging to
correct phase errors mainly due to unexpected motion error. There are several well-known …

Evaluating the effect of stage removal on the performance of phase gradient autofocus (PGA) algorithm

A ELBohy, A Azouz, AS Mashaly… - … Conference (ITC-Egypt …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autofocus is a crucial step for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image formation. The choice
of autofocus strategy is highly dependent on the compromise between SAR processing …

A range-dependent autofocus algorithm based on the Tikhonov regularization method

Y Li, C Liu, Y Wang - International journal of remote sensing, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Phase Gradient Autofocus (PGA) is an algorithm developed to estimate phase errors in
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. It is widely used in SAR image processing and has …

An experimental study of a new entropy-based SAR autofocus technique

RLJ Morrison, DCJ Munson - … . International Conference on …, 2002 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The stage by stage approaching (SSA) entropy minimization approach to synthetic aperture
radar (SAR) autofocus is a modern and innovative technique, which, to date, has not been …

SAR autofocus based on minimum entropy

F Li, T Zeng, R Wang - 2013 IEEE International Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an autofocus method based on minimum-entropy criterion for synthetic
aperture radar imaging. Through minimizing the entropy, an iterative method is derived to …

Autofocus algorithm for SAR imagery based on sharpness optimisation

Y Gao, W Yu, Y Liu, R Wang - Electronics letters, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
To focus synthetic aperture radar data suffering from phase errors, a novel autofocus
algorithm is presented. The algorithm uses the coordinate descent technique to estimate the …

Afnet and PAFnet: fast and accurate SAR autofocus based on deep learning

Z Liu, S Yang, Q Gao, Z Feng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autofocus plays a key role in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, especially for high-
resolution imaging. In the literature, the minimum-entropy-based algorithms (MEA) have …

SAR image autofocus utilizing minimum-entropy criterion

T Zeng, R Wang, F Li - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An autofocus method was presented based on an entropy criterion for synthetic aperture
radar imaging. An iterative method, through minimizing the entropy, was derived to obtain …

Efficient nonparametric ISAR autofocus algorithm based on contrast maximization and Newton's method

J Cai, M Martorella, S Chang, Q Liu… - IEEE Sensors …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Phase autofocus is a significant step in translational motion compensation for inverse
synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging. Among the existing autofocus methods, contrast …

Enhanced compressed sensing autofocus for high-resolution airborne synthetic aperture radar

M Beheshti, V Shafiei, H Narimani - Digital Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
The limited accuracy of the navigation system leads to deviations between the real and
measured trajectories in airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) which results in residual …