Spotlight SAR image formation and processing algorithms
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides technical, strategical and economical advantages in the field of monostatic radar imaging systems. Spotlight SAR in particular provides the ability to improve this technology when surveying a fixed area. This report investigates SAR operations and spotlight mo...
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| author | James Arthur Roger Balfour |
| author2 | Tan Eng Leong |
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| description | Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides technical, strategical and economical advantages in the field of monostatic radar imaging systems. Spotlight SAR in particular provides the ability to improve this technology when surveying a fixed area. This report investigates SAR operations and spotlight mode operations along with the challenges that are faced when using this mode, mainly focusing on the effects of Motion Through Resolution Cells (MTRC). There are image-formatting algorithms used to counteract the distortions that occur in spotlight SAR imaging. Various formats will be reviewed and their workings briefly explained but one particular format, Range Migration Algorithm (RMA), will be investigated in depth and will be implemented on the given raw SAR data, analysing the effects of each process in RMA on the image. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/500092023-07-07T17:02:29Z Spotlight SAR image formation and processing algorithms James Arthur Roger Balfour Tan Eng Leong School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems::Signal processing Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides technical, strategical and economical advantages in the field of monostatic radar imaging systems. Spotlight SAR in particular provides the ability to improve this technology when surveying a fixed area. This report investigates SAR operations and spotlight mode operations along with the challenges that are faced when using this mode, mainly focusing on the effects of Motion Through Resolution Cells (MTRC). There are image-formatting algorithms used to counteract the distortions that occur in spotlight SAR imaging. Various formats will be reviewed and their workings briefly explained but one particular format, Range Migration Algorithm (RMA), will be investigated in depth and will be implemented on the given raw SAR data, analysing the effects of each process in RMA on the image. Bachelor of Engineering 2012-05-28T07:23:56Z 2012-05-28T07:23:56Z 2012 2012 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50009 en Nanyang Technological University 51 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems::Signal processing James Arthur Roger Balfour Spotlight SAR image formation and processing algorithms |
| title | Spotlight SAR image formation and processing algorithms |
| title_full | Spotlight SAR image formation and processing algorithms |
| title_fullStr | Spotlight SAR image formation and processing algorithms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spotlight SAR image formation and processing algorithms |
| title_short | Spotlight SAR image formation and processing algorithms |
| title_sort | spotlight sar image formation and processing algorithms |
| topic | DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Electronic systems::Signal processing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50009 |
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