A Butterfly Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

A Butterfly Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

In spite of an extensive literature on fast algorithms for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, it is not currently known if it is possible to accurately form an image from N data points in provable near-linear time complexity. This paper seeks to close this gap by proposing an algorithm which runs in complexity O(N logN log(1/ )) without making the far-field approximation or imposing the be...

Azimuth Stacking Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

The aim of this paper is to present a frequency domain method for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. By using two consecutive linear mappings along Doppler and frequency domains, an azimuth-dependent SAR transfer function has been discovered. Based on this new transfer function, the SAR image can be reconstructed by the proposed azimuth stacking algorithm. The new algorithm can form SAR im...

Coherent interferometric imaging for synthetic aperture radar

This paper shows that the coherent interferometric imaging strategy originally proposed in the context of passive or active arrays of antennas can be implemented for synthetic aperture radar, in which a single antenna is used as an emitter and as a receiver at successive positions along a trajectory. The idea is to backpropagate the cross correlations of the recorded signals over selected frequ...

Refocusing Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar

Synthetic aperture radar imaging exploiting multiple scattering

In this paper, we consider an imaging scenario, where a bi-static synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system is used in a multiple scattering environment. We consider a ray-theoretic approximation to the Green function to model a multiple scattering environment. This allows us to incorporate the multiple paths followed by the transmitted signal, thereby providing different views of the object to be ...