Motion compensation/autofocus in airborne synthetic aperture radar: A review

J Chen, M Xing, H Yu, B Liang, J Peng… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Air-and spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can provide a large number of high-
resolution images for microwave remote sensing applications, such as geoscience and …

Full-aperture processing of airborne microwave photonic SAR raw data

J Chen, M Li, H Yu, M Xing - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
At present, the resolution of the most advanced airborne microwave photonic synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) can reach the order of centimeters or even millimeters, so the 2-D …

A 2-D space-variant motion estimation and compensation method for ultrahigh-resolution airborne stepped-frequency SAR with long integration time

J Chen, M Xing, GC Sun, Z Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For the ultrahigh-resolution airborne stepped-frequency synthetic aperture radar, very large
synthetic bandwidth and very long integration time may lead to a 2-D space-variant (SV) …

On the Time-Domain Airborne SAR Focusing in the Presence of Strong Azimuth Variations of the Squint Angle

P Berardino, A Natale, C Esposito… - … on Geoscience and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data focusing in the presence of highly variable
squint angles is addressed in this work. To do this, a time-domain SAR focusing algorithm …

Comparison of two‐step and one‐step motion compensation algorithms for airborne synthetic aperture radar

M Yang, D Zhu, W Song - Electronics Letters, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image quality considerably degrades because of
motion errors. High‐precision motion compensation (MOCO) is necessary in an advanced …

Azimuth motion compensation with improved subaperture algorithm for airborne SAR imaging

L Zhang, G Wang, Z Qiao… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conventional motion compensation (MOCO) under beam-center approximation is usually
insufficient to correct severe track deviations for high-resolution synthetic aperture radar …

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 …

Precise focusing of airborne SAR data with wide apertures large trajectory deviations: A chirp modulated back-projection approach

D Meng, D Hu, C Ding - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the area of airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), motion compensation (MOCO) is a
crucial technique employed to correct the SAR data affected by nonlinear platform trajectory …

Simultaneous range and cross-range variant phase error estimation and compensation for highly squinted SAR imaging

L Ran, R Xie, Z Liu, L Zhang, T Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses an autofocusing technique for highly squinted airborne synthetic
aperture radar (SAR) imaging. In highly squinted mode, the phase errors resulting by …

Two-stage focusing algorithm for highly squinted synthetic aperture radar imaging

L Zhang, G Wang, Z Qiao, H Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Highly squinted synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data focusing is a challenging problem with
difficulty to correct the severe range-azimuth coupling and motion errors. Squint …