Journal
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE
Volume 101, Issue 3, Pages 784-797Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2012.2232891
Keywords
Airborne radar; focusing; motion compensation; synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
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- Delegation Generale de l'Armement (the French MoD procurement directorate)
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Frequency-domain synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation algorithms are of lower computation cost (both in number of elementary operations and in required memory storage) than direct time-domain integration, and do not make the narrowband (monochromatic) assumption. Both advantages are critical to very-high-resolution imaging because a lower complexity yields a drastic computation time decrease as cross-range resolution increases, and the narrowband assumption is more and more a concern as range resolution (hence bandwidth) increases. Though an exact formulation exists (omega-k algorithm) for a perfect linear uniform acquisition trajectory, in a real-life airborne case, the unavoidable trajectory deviation from a straight line needs to be compensated. This motion compensation (MoComp) operation is much more complicated in the case of frequency-domain processing. An efficient technique for this purpose is presented. This method keeps the parallel processing aspect, and has been programmed both for multithread on multicore/ symmetrical multiprocessor central processing units (CPUs) and for graphic processor units (GPUs).
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