Towards development of autofocusing schemes for phase compensation of synthetic aperture sonars

Autor: V. Tonard, M. Brussieux
Rok vydání: 2002
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Zdroj: Oceans '97. MTS/IEEE Conference Proceedings.
DOI: 10.1109/oceans.1997.624097
Popis: This article is dedicated to the phase compensation problem associated with synthetic aperture sonar beamforming. Array movements during the time of synthesis and medium heterogeneity have to be compensated at a degree of accuracy of a fraction of wavelength to achieve the full resolution expected from theory. We present a phase noise correction scheme based on 2D correlations of conventional beam signals coming from adjacent pings. Successful compensation of ping to ping lateral displacement amplitudes up to 75 /spl lambda/ have been achieved by the proposed method on DUBM-42 actual sonar data (the DUBM-42 is a French Navy owned high resolution side looking imaging sonar at 400 kHz).
Databáze: OpenAIRE