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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

MCA: A multichannel approach to SAR autofocus

RL Morrison, MN Do, DC Munson - IEEE transactions on image …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a new noniterative approach to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) autofocus,
termed the multichannel autofocus (MCA) algorithm. The key in the approach is to exploit the …

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) …

Structured sparsity-driven autofocus algorithm for high-resolution radar imagery

L Zhao, L Wang, G Bi, S Li, L Yang, H Zhang - Signal Processing, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent development of compressive sensing has greatly benefited radar imaging problems.
In this paper, we investigate the problem of obtaining enhanced targets such as ships and …

SAR image autofocus by sharpness optimization: A theoretical study

RL Morrison, MN Do, DC Munson - IEEE Transactions on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) autofocus techniques that optimize sharpness metrics can
produce excellent restorations in comparison with conventional autofocus approaches. To …

CBP-based multichannel autofocus for near-field SAR imaging

HJ Cho, DC Munson Jr - Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture …, 2011 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Multichannel Autofocus (MCA) assumes that there exits a region of low return in the focused
image and solves for the correction filter that minimizes the energy in the presumed low …

Maximum likelihood SAR autofocus with low-return region

KH Liu, A Wiesel, DC Munson - 2011 IEEE International …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autofocus algorithms deal with image restoration in a nonideal synthetic aperture radar
(SAR) imaging system. We propose a novel autofocus algorithm, denoted as MLA, that is …

Compressive sensing based SAR imaging and autofocus using improved Tikhonov regularization

MS Kang, KT Kim - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, the compressive sensing (CS) coupled with total
variation (TV)-based algorithm is known as an effective focusing technique using under …

Multichannel autofocus algorithm for synthetic aperture radar

RL Morrison, MN Do - 2006 International Conference on Image …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The autofocus problem in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is considered, where phase errors
in the acquired signal data result in imagery that is improperly focused. We present a new …