Estimating the Doppler centroid of SAR data

Søren Nørvang Madsen

doi:10.1109/7.18675

Estimating the Doppler centroid of SAR data

Søren Nørvang Madsen

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After reviewing frequency-domain techniques for estimating the Doppler centroid of synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data, the author describes a time-domain method and highlights its advantages. In particular, a nonlinear time-domain algorithm called the sign-Doppler estimator (SDE) is shown to have attractive properties. An evaluation based on an existing SEASAT processor is reported. The time-domain algorithms are shown to be extremely efficient with respect to requirements on calculations and memory, and hence they are well suited to real-time systems where the Doppler estimation is based on raw SAR data. For offline processors where the Doppler estimation is performed on processed data, which removes the problem of partial coverage of bright targets, the ΔE estimator and the CDE (correlation Doppler estimator) algorithm give similar performance. However, for nonhomogeneous scenes it is found that the nonlinear SDE algorithm, which estimates the Doppler-shift on the basis of data signs alone, gives superior performance

Original language	English
Journal	I E E E Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Volume	25
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	134-140
ISSN	0018-9251
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/7.18675
Publication status	Published - 1989

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