The satellite–ground bistatic configuration, which uses geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) for illumination and ground equipment for reception, can achieve wide coverage, high revisit, and continuous illumination of interest area...
A multi-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) on board a spaceplane orbiting near the top of the atmosphere is proposed to acquire images of cruising ships. Low pulse repetition frequency (PRF) is required for high-resolution wide-swath (HRWS) imagi...
Geosynchronous Orbit Synthetic Aperture Radar (GEO SAR) has recently received increasing attention due to its ability of performing staring observations of ground targets. However, GEO SAR staring observation has an ultra-long integration time that c...
Azimuth ambiguity caused by spectral aliasing severely degrades the quality of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. To suppress azimuth ambiguity while preserving image details as much as possible, this paper proposes an azimuth ambiguity suppressi...
Aiming to acquire ultrahigh resolution images, algorithms for spaceborne spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging typically confront challenges of curved orbit and azimuth spectral aliasing. In order to conquer these difficulties, a method is...
Maritime moving target imaging using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) demands high resolution and wide swath (HRWS). Using the variable pulse repetition interval (PRI), staggered SAR can achieve seamless HRWS imaging. The reconstruction should be perfo...
Based on the terrain observation by progressive scans (TOPS) mode, an efficient full-aperture image formation algorithm for focusing wide-swath spaceborne TOPS data is proposed. First, to overcome the Doppler frequency spectrum aliasing caused by azi...
The azimuth multichannel synthetic aperture radar (MC-SAR) is an effective means of earth observation due to its high-resolution and wide-swath (HRWS) imaging capability. Compared with the traditional MC-SAR, the two-dimensional (2D) spectrum of the...
High-Resolution Wide-Swath (HRWS) is an important development direction of space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The two-dimensional spatial variation of the Doppler parameters is the most significant characteristic of the sliding spotlight spa...
To tackle the problems of Doppler spectrum, aliasing caused by azimuth beam scanning and azimuthal serious non-uniform sampling in squint sliding spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with varying repetition frequency technology, the azimuth sampl...
Multi-channel beam-steering synthetic aperture radar (multi-channel BS-SAR) can achieve high resolution and wide-swath observations by combining beam-steering technology and azimuth multi-channel technology. Various imaging algorithms have been propo...
The study focuses on addressing the image defocusing issue caused by motion errors in highly squinted Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The traditional auto-focusing algorithm, Phase Gradient Autofocus (PGA), is not effective in this mode due to diffic...
This paper deals with the imaging problem for sliding spotlight (SS) and terrain observation by progressive scan (TOPS) modes in bistatic configuration of the geostationary (GEO) transmitter with a low earth orbit satellite (LEO) receiver, named GTLR...
For a single-channel spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the usage of a low pulse repetition frequency (PRF) is an effective technical way to extend the range swath. The sub-aperture imaging strategy is usually used to solve the problem of azi...
Imaging maritime targets requires a high resolution and wide swath (HWRS) in a synthetic aperture radar (SAR). When operated with a variable pulse repetition interval (PRI), a staggered SAR can realize HRWS imaging, which needs to be reconstructed du...