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) …

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 …

Airborne SAR autofocus based on blurry imagery classification

J Chen, H Yu, G Xu, J Zhang, B Liang, D Yang - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Existing airborne SAR autofocus methods can be classified as parametric and non-
parametric. Generally, non-parametric methods, such as the widely used phase gradient …

A less-memory and high-efficiency autofocus back projection algorithm for SAR imaging

K Hu, X Zhang, S He, H Zhao… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The back projection (BP) algorithm is an accurate time-domain imaging method for synthetic
aperture radar. However, the influences of wind field and turbulence on the platform make …

A coarse-to-fine autofocus approach for very high-resolution airborne stripmap SAR imagery

J Li, J Chen, P Wang, O Loffeld - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An autofocus operation is an indispensable procedure to obtain well-focused images for
synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) systems without precise navigation devices. Three …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Knowledge-aided 2-D autofocus for spotlight SAR range migration algorithm imagery

X Mao, X He, D Li - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With continuous improvement of the synthetic aperture radar (SAR) resolution, the 2-D
defocus effect in SAR image resulting from uncompensated motion error has made …

Fourier-domain multichannel autofocus for synthetic aperture radar

KH Liu, DC Munson - IEEE transactions on image processing, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging suffers from image focus degradation in the
presence of phase errors in the received signal due to unknown platform motion or signal …