Automated two- and three-dimensional, fine-resolution radar imaging of rigid targets with arbitrary unknown motion

Mark A. Stuff; Richard C. Sullivan Jr.; Brian J. Thelen; Susan A. Werness

doi:10.1117/12.177171

9 June 1994 Automated two- and three-dimensional, fine-resolution radar imaging of rigid targets with arbitrary unknown motion

Mark A. Stuff, Richard C. Sullivan Jr., Brian J. Thelen, Susan A. Werness

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Proceedings Volume 2230, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177171
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1994, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

An automated system for the SAR/ISAR imaging of rigid bodies which are undergoing arbitrarily complicated unknown motions is being developed. This system determines, from only the radar data, all observable parameters of motion, on a pulse by pulse basis. The approach makes it possible to: (1) exploit any type of relative motion: translational, rotational, two dimensional, three dimensional, deterministic, or stochastic; no prior parametric assumptions on the functional form of the motion are required; (2) require only the radar data; no ancillary motion measurement system on either the radar platform or on the target is required; (3) automatically provide all the motion information needed to form correctly scaled images, without cross range scale ambiguities; (4) make full use of all the radar data; no signals returning from a target are discarded; and (5) require a known computation time, which is not signal dependent, as all iterative processes used have known, guaranteed convergence rates.

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Mark A. Stuff, Richard C. Sullivan Jr., Brian J. Thelen, and Susan A. Werness "Automated two- and three-dimensional, fine-resolution radar imaging of rigid targets with arbitrary unknown motion", Proc. SPIE 2230, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, (9 June 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.177171

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