Motion measurement errors and autofocus in bistatic SAR

BD Rigling, RL Moses - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper discusses the effect of motion measurement errors (MMEs) on measured bistatic
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) phase history data that has been motion compensated to the …

Considerations for autofocus of spotlight-mode SAR imagery created using a beamforming algorithm

CV Jakowatz Jr, DE Wahl - Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture …, 2009 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In recent papers the authors discussed the advantages of forming spotlight-mode SAR
imagery from phase history data via a technique that is rooted in the principles of phased …

Autofocus correction of SAR images exhibiting excessive residual migration

AW Doerry - Radar Sensor Technology IX, 2005 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Relatively small motion measurement errors manifest themselves principally as a phase
error in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) complex data samples, and if large enough become …

Estimation of phase errors in SAR data by local-quadratic map-drift autofocus

OO Bezvesilniy, IM Gorovyi… - 2012 13th International …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Uncompensated phase errors lead to quality degradation of SAR images what is especially
critical for high-resolution systems. In the paper, a novel approach to the stripmap autofocus …

[PDF][PDF] A comparison of autofocus algorithms for SAR imagery

VC Koo, TS Lim, HT Chuah - PIERS Online, 2005 - scholar.archive.org
A challenge in SAR system development involves compensation for nonlinear motion errors
of the sensor platform. The uncompensated along-track motions can cause a severe loss of …

SAR system for UAV operation with motion error compensation beyond the resolution cell

JT Gonzalez-Partida, P Almorox-Gonzalez… - Sensors, 2008 - mdpi.com
This paper presents an experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system that is under
development in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The system uses Linear Frequency …

Moving target artifacts in bistatic synthetic aperture radar images

K Duman, B Yazıcı - IEEE Transactions on Computational …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging methods are designed to image stationary scenes.
Moving targets appear smeared and misplaced in reconstructed SAR images. This paper …

An autofocus technique for video-SAR

R Linnehan, J Miller, E Bishop… - Algorithms for Synthetic …, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc.(GA-ASI) is designing a real-time, video-SAR
(synthetic aperture radar) mode for a test bed radar system. Typically, the flight path for video …

Extending the phase gradient autofocus algorithm for low-altitude stripmap mode SAR

DG Thompson, JS Bates… - Proceedings of the 1999 …, 1999 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The phase gradient autofocus (PGA) algorithm has been widely used in spotlight synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) to remove motion-induced blurs in the images. The PGA algorithm has …

SAR motion compensation using autofocus

D Blacknell, S Quegan - International Journal of Remote Sensing, 1991 - Taylor & Francis
Conventional motion compensation schemes correct for unwanted synthetic aperture radar
(SAR) platform motions using information from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) …