A fast autofocus algorithm for synthetic aperture radar processing

Jørgen Dall

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.1992.226290

A fast autofocus algorithm for synthetic aperture radar processing

Jørgen Dall

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Abstract

High-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging requires the motion of the radar platform to be known very accurately. Otherwise, phase errors are induced in the processing of the raw SAR data, and bad focusing results. In particular, a constant error in the measured along-track velocity or the cross-track acceleration leads to a phase error that varies quadratically over the synthetic aperture. The process of estimating this quadratic phase error directly from the radar data is termed autofocus. A novel autofocus algorithm with a computational complexity which is at least an order of magnitude lower than that of other algorithms providing comparable accuracies is presented. The algorithm has been tested on data from the Danish Airborne SAR, and the performance is compared with that of the traditional map drift algorithm

Original language	English
Journal	I E E E International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings
Volume	3
Pages (from-to)	5 - 8
ISSN	1520-6149
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1992.226290
Publication status	Published - 1992
Event	IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - San Francisco, CA Duration: 1 Jan 1992 → …

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
City	San Francisco, CA
Period	01/01/1992 → …

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Dall, J. (1992). A fast autofocus algorithm for synthetic aperture radar processing. I E E E International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings, 3, 5 - 8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.1992.226290

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