Simultaneous Navigation and Synthetic Aperture Radar Focusing, Report no. LiTH-ISY-R-3063
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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) equipment is a radar imaging system that can be used to create high resolution images of a scene by utilising the movement of a flying platform. Knowledge of the platform’s trajectory is essential to get good and focused images. An emerging application field is real-time SAR imaging using small and cheap platforms with poorer navigation systems implying unfocused images. This contribution investigates a joint estimation of the trajectory and SAR image.
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