Fourier Analysis, Computing, and Image Formation for Spotlight Synthetic Aperture Radar

10/22/2019
by   Toby Sanders, et al.
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This article is written to serve as an introduction and survey of imaging with synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The reader will benefit from having some familiarity with harmonic analysis, electromagnetic radiation, and inverse problems. After an overview of the SAR problem and some main concepts, the SAR imaging problem is contextualized in terms of classical harmonic analysis. Within this context, we consider partial Fourier sums of off-centered Fourier data and correspondingly the convolutional kernels resulting from conventional SAR image formation techniques. Following this, we revisit imaging of random complex signals from frequency data as in SAR, providing simpler derivations of some previous results and extending these ideas to the continuous setting. These concepts are tied in with the derived convolutional kernels, and it is deduced how good an image approximation is when it is obtained from only a small band of high frequency Fourier coefficients. Finally, regularization methods are presented to improve the quality of SAR images. Corresponding MATLAB software is made available for reproducibility of most figures and to facilitate further exploration of the methods presented here.

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