National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.B2520110008);National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61071165);Aeronautical Science Foundation of China, ASFC (No.20102052024);Specially Supported by The Third Batch of China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.201003586);Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No.NS2012097);A Project Funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions;Ph.D. Programs Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (No.20123218120021)
MAO Xin-hua, CAO Hai-yang, ZHU Dai-yin, et al. Prior Knowledge Aided Two Dimensional Autofocus Approach for Synthetic Aperture Radar[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2013, 41(6): 1041-1047.
DOI:
MAO Xin-hua, CAO Hai-yang, ZHU Dai-yin, et al. Prior Knowledge Aided Two Dimensional Autofocus Approach for Synthetic Aperture Radar[J]. Acta Electronica Sinica, 2013, 41(6): 1041-1047. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0372-2112.2013.06.001.
Prior Knowledge Aided Two Dimensional Autofocus Approach for Synthetic Aperture Radar
Conventional two dimensional(2D)autofocus algorithms didn't take advantage of the priori information on the structure of phase error.They often suffered from lack of redundancy to accurately estimate the 2D phase error.In this paper
a knowledge aided(KA)2D autofocus approach is presented
which is based on exploiting the priori knowledge on the phase error structure.First
as a prerequisite for the proposed KA method
the analytical structure of residual 2D phase error in SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar)imagery is investigated in the polar format algorithm framework.Then
by incorporating this prior information
a 2D autofocus approach is proposed.The new method only requires an estimate of azimuth 1D phase error
while the 2D phase errors can then be computed directly from the estimated azimuth phase error.Experimental results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method.