High-Resolution and Wide-Swath SAR Imaging with Space–Time Coding Array

Autor: Kun Yu, Shengqi Zhu, Lan Lan, Biao Yang
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Remote Sensing, Vol 15, Iss 9, p 2465 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-4292
DOI: 10.3390/rs15092465
Popis: To achieve high-resolution and wide-swath (HRWS) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, this paper focuses on resolving the problem of separating range-ambiguous echoes with the space–time coding (STC) array. At the modeling stage, the transmit elements and pulses of the STC array are configured with time delay and phase coding modulation, which introduces extra degrees of freedom (DOFs) in the transmit domain. To separate the echoes corresponding to different range-ambiguity regions, the equivalent transmit beamforming is performed in the two-dimensional space–frequency domain. Moreover, in order to compensate for the loss of range resolution during the beamforming progress, the frequency splicing method is proposed. At the analysis stage, the distributed target simulation is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of obtaining HRWS SAR images in the STC radar. Additionally, the performance of resolving range ambiguity is compared with the traditional radar in terms of the range-ambiguity-to-signal ratio (RASR).
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