The polar format imaging algorithm based on double chirp-Z transforms

Y Tang, MD Xing, Z Bao - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spotlight mode offers finer azimuth resolution than that achievable in stripmap mode using
the same physical antenna. The most popular spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) …

A parameter-adjusting polar format algorithm for extremely high squint SAR imaging

Y Wang, J Li, J Chen, H Xu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The polar format algorithm (PFA) is a wavenumber domain imaging method for spotlight
synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The classic fixed-parameter PFA employs interpolation …

Refocusing and zoom-in polar format algorithm for curvilinear spotlight SAR imaging on arbitrary region of interest

R Hu, X Li, TS Yeo, Y Yang, C Chi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For conventional polar format algorithm (PFA), because of the image distortion and defocus
caused by the plane-wave assumption, the effective imaging scene is bounded to a small …

Improved Parametric Polar Format Algorithm for High-Squint and Wide-Beam SAR Imaging

Z Meng, L Zhang, G Wang, J Lu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-squint and wide-beam synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is challenging for
current popular SAR imaging algorithms, because the severe spatial-variant motion error …

Polar format algorithm for spotlight bistatic SAR with arbitrary geometry configuration

J Sun, S Mao, G Wang, W Hong - Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 2010 - jpier.org
This paper presents an effective Polar Format Algorithm (PFA) for spotlight bistatic synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) with arbitrary geometry configuration. Nonuniform interpolation and …

Widefield Parametric Polar Format Algorithm for Spotlight SAR Imaging

Z Meng, L Zhang, L Chen - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For widefield synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, range-dependent motion errors and
range curvature are the main obstacle for range cell migration correction (RCMC) and …

An improved PFA with aperture accommodation for widefield spotlight SAR imaging

B Fan, Y Qin, P You, H Wang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter presents an improved polar format algorithm for nonlinear aperture and widefield
spotlight synthetic aperture radar imaging. In the proposed algorithm, the chirp z transform is …

Polar format algorithm based on fast Gaussian grid non‐uniform fast Fourier transform for spotlight synthetic aperture radar imaging

B Fan, J Wang, Y Qin, H Wang… - IET Radar, Sonar & …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional polar format algorithm (PFA) and its variations normally assume an ideal
imaging geometry of a linear flight path, which cannot counteract the non‐uniformity of …

A two-step wide-scene polar format algorithm for high-resolution highly-squinted SAR

X Nie, W Lei, L Zhuang - IEEE Geoscience and Remote …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditional polar format algorithm (PFA) is widely used in high-resolution and highly-
squinted (HRHS) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, because of its unique decoupling …

A new formulation of polar format algorithm for bistatic spotlight SAR

X Mao, D Zhu, D Wu - 2015 IEEE Radar Conference …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a new interpretation of the polar format algorithm (PFA) for bistatic spotlight
synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging is presented. From the viewpoint of two-dimensional …