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  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,636 Views
19 Pages

14 March 2013

High-altitude platforms (HAP) or near-space vehicle offers several advantages over current low earth orbit (LEO) satellite and airplane, because HAP is not constrained by orbital mechanics and fuel consumption. These advantages provide potential for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Earth Observation Technology Cluster: Innovative Sensor Systems for Advanced Land Surface Studies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,408 Views
27 Pages

Robust Two-Dimensional Spatial-Variant Map-Drift Algorithm for UAV SAR Autofocusing

  • Guanyong Wang,
  • Man Zhang,
  • Yan Huang,
  • Lei Zhang and
  • Fengfei Wang

8 February 2019

Autofocus has attracted wide attention for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, because autofocus process is crucial and difficult when the phase error is spatially dependent on both range and azimuth directions. In t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Imaging Theory, Techniques, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,511 Views
22 Pages

14 August 2025

In high-resolution and wide-swath (HRWS) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, the azimuth multi-channel technique effectively suppresses azimuth ambiguity, serving as a reliable approach for achieving wide-swath imaging. However, due to mechanical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Processing and Application (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,903 Views
22 Pages

High-Resolution ISAR Imaging with Modified Joint Range Spatial-Variant Autofocus and Azimuth Scaling

  • Jiaqi Wei,
  • Shuai Shao,
  • Hui Ma,
  • Penghui Wang,
  • Lei Zhang and
  • Hongwei Liu

5 September 2020

Well-focused and accurately scaled high-resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) images provide a sound basis for feature extraction and target recognition. This paper proposes a novel high-resolution ISAR imaging algorithm, namely modified...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
638 Views
27 Pages

13 June 2026

Shore-based maritime surveillance radars suffer from systematic range and azimuth errors that degrade target-tracking accuracy. This paper proposes a Vision Transformer (ViT) variant that corrects these errors using Automatic Identification System (A...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,517 Views
24 Pages

27 July 2023

The transmitter and receiver of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) bistatic synthetic aperture radar (Bi-SAR) are respectively carried on different UAV platforms, which has the advantages of flexible movement and strong concealment, and has broad applicat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in SAR: Sensors, Methodologies, and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,289 Views
18 Pages

26 October 2017

Precise azimuth-variant motion compensation (MOCO) is an essential and difficult task for high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery. In conventional post-filtering approaches, residual azimuth-variant motion errors are generally compensa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology: New Perspectives Offered by New-Generation and Forthcoming SAR Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
6,124 Views
23 Pages

13 October 2016

Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to its unique advantages, such as the ability of forward-looking imaging. In translational variant bistatic forward-looking SAR (TV-BFSAR), it is difficult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,094 Views
24 Pages

13 January 2022

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,360 Views
24 Pages

6 January 2025

A frequency domain imaging algorithm, featured as joint two-dimensional (2D) time and frequency domain resampling, used for high-resolution high-squint large-scene (HHL) spaceborne sliding spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing is propos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Processing Methods and Techniques of Spaceborne SAR with Ultra-High Resolution)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,162 Views
19 Pages

13 July 2019

In view of the azimuth resolution of the helicopter-borne rotating array synthetic aperture radar (RoASAR) depending on the azimuth reconstruction angle and the sector distortion caused by the azimuth Deramp processing, this paper proposes an efficie...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,138 Views
17 Pages

1 April 2021

The coupling between range and azimuth dimensions is the main obstacle for highly squinted synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data focusing. Range walk correction (RWC) processing is effective to remove the linear coupling term, but the residual high ord...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,141 Views
23 Pages

Refocusing Swing Ships in SAR Imagery Based on Spatial-Variant Defocusing Property

  • Jin Wang,
  • Xiangguang Leng,
  • Zhongzhen Sun,
  • Xi Zhang and
  • Kefeng Ji

17 June 2023

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is an essential tool for maritime surveillance in all weather conditions and at night. Ships are often affected by sea breezes and waves, generating a three-dimensional (3D) swinging motion. The 3D swing ship can thereb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SAR-Based Signal Processing and Target Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,302 Views
30 Pages

14 July 2016

Compared with low-Earth orbit synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a geosynchronous (GEO) SAR can have a shorter revisit period and vaster coverage. However, relative motion between this SAR and targets is more complicated, which makes range cell migratio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthetic Aperture Radars: Models, Algorithms, Techniques and Tools for Data Exploitation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,588 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2020

The imagery of airborne highly squinted synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with curved trajectory is a challenging task due to the translational-variant range cell migration (RCM) and azimuth modulation. However, in most cases of practical application, t...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,415 Views
24 Pages

Azimuth Multichannel Reconstruction for Moving Targets in Geosynchronous Spaceborne–Airborne Bistatic SAR

  • Wei Xu,
  • Zhengbin Wei,
  • Pingping Huang,
  • Weixian Tan,
  • Bo Liu,
  • Zhiqi Gao and
  • Yifan Dong

26 May 2020

In a multichannel geosynchronous spaceborne–airborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar (GEO-SA-BiSAR) system, the airborne receiver can obtain high-resolution microwave images with good signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) by passively receiving echoe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Processing of Bi-static, Geo-Synchronous and Multi-Satellite SAR Constellation Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,104 Views
15 Pages

5 March 2018

Sidelobe reduction is a very primary task for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Various methods have been proposed for broadside SAR, which can suppress the sidelobes effectively while maintaining high image resolution at the same time. Alternat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology: New Perspectives Offered by New-Generation and Forthcoming SAR Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,424 Views
16 Pages

26 November 2022

In order to study the optimal sweepback angle when a variant unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) exhibits a low radar cross-section (RCS) indicator during phase flight, an auto sweep scheme based on electromagnetic scattering evaluation and an improved par...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,279 Views
35 Pages

29 April 2024

The imaging of high-speed high-squint synthetic aperture radar (HSHS-SAR), which is mounted on maneuvering platforms with curved trajectory, is a challenging task due to the existence of 3-D acceleration and the azimuth spatial variability of range m...

(This article belongs to the Topic Information Sensing Technology for Intelligent/Driverless Vehicle, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,074 Views
20 Pages

ISAL Imaging Algorithm for Spaceborne Non-Uniformly Rotating Targets Based on Matched Fourier Transform and a Genetic Algorithm

  • Hongfei Yin,
  • Liang Guo,
  • Mian Pan,
  • Xuan Wang,
  • Songyuan Li,
  • Yingying Pan and
  • Mengdao Xing

15 October 2025

When the spaceborne satellite target rotates non-uniformly relative to the ladar, the high-order space-variant phase will be introduced into the echo phase along both the range and azimuth direction, which will cause the degree of defocusing of the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,086 Views
36 Pages

27 December 2025

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a critical enabling technology for maritime surveillance. However, maneuvering ships often appear defocused in SAR images, posing significant challenges for subsequent ship detection and recognition. To address this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Imaging Radar Signal Processing, Target Feature Extraction and Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,015 Views
28 Pages

21 November 2023

Due to the complex range migration characteristics of large squint angle synthetic aperture radar (SAR), it is difficult for traditional SAR deceptive jamming algorithms to balance focusing ability and computational efficiency. There is an urgent dem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Processing and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,259 Views
28 Pages

Parameter Estimation and Error Calibration for Multi-Channel Beam-Steering SAR Systems

  • Heli Gao,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Shaun Quegan,
  • Wei Yang and
  • Chunsheng Li

14 June 2019

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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,570 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Twisting Phases on the Polarization Dynamics of a Vector Optical Field

  • Quanbin Liu,
  • Khian-Hooi Chew,
  • Yingqi Huang,
  • Caixia Liu,
  • Xiaobo Hu,
  • Yuhua Li and
  • Rui-Pin Chen

4 October 2022

The effect of twisting phases on the polarization dynamics of a vector vortex beam with a spatially variant state of polarization (SoP) is investigated theoretically and experimentally. The twisted vector vortex optical field with the cross-phase mod...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Light Control and Particle Manipulation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,430 Views
28 Pages

Elevation Spatial Variation Analysis and Compensation in GEO SAR Imaging

  • Faguang Chang,
  • Dexin Li,
  • Zhen Dong,
  • Yang Huang,
  • Zhihua He and
  • Xing Chen

12 May 2021

Due to geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar’s (GEO SAR) high orbit and low relative speed, the integration time reaches up to hundreds of seconds for a fine resolution. The short revisit cycle is essential for remote sensing applications such as d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition Radar and Sonar Imaging and Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,929 Views
17 Pages

26 June 2020

Two unsolved key issues in inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging for non-cooperative rapidly spinning targets including high computational complexity and poor imaging performance in the case of low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are addressed...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing in Engineering Geology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,293 Views
23 Pages

Spatial-Variant Delay-Doppler Imagery of Airborne Wide-Beam Radar Altimeter for Contour Extraction of Undulating Terrain

  • Yanxi Lu,
  • Shize Yu,
  • Yao Wang,
  • Fang Li,
  • Longlong Tan,
  • Bo Huang,
  • Ge Jiang,
  • Gaozheng Liu and
  • Lei Yang

30 March 2026

Synthetic aperture radar altimeter (SARAL) directs the radar beam toward the nadir point of the flight trajectory. It is capable of capturing elevation variations in the terrain of interest. To ensure that the nadir point remains within the beam cove...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,963 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Motion Compensation Scheme for Airborne Very High Resolution SAR

  • Zhen Chen,
  • Zhimin Zhang,
  • Yashi Zhou,
  • Pei Wang and
  • Jinsong Qiu

12 July 2021

Due to the atmospheric turbulence, the motion trajectory of airborne very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radars (SARs) is inevitably affected, which introduces range-variant range cell migration (RCM) and aperture-dependent azimuth phase er...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,268 Views
10 Pages

We report the design, fabrication and experimental validation of a THz all-dielectric multi-mode q-plate having a fixed rate of change of the optical axis. The device consists of space-variant birefringent slabs manufactured by 3D printing using melt...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Sensing and Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,565 Views
20 Pages

27 July 2023

The L-band geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO-SAR) has been widely praised for its advantages of short revisit time, wide coverage and stable backscattering information acquisition. However, due to the ultra-long integrated time, the echo w...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,375 Views
17 Pages

18 October 2022

Lq (0 < q ≤ 1) regularization has been confirmed effective when applied to sparse SAR imaging. However, the inaccuracies caused by motion errors in the observation model will lead to various degradations and defocus in the reconstructed image....

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,556 Views
19 Pages

23 February 2025

Spaceborne inverse synthetic aperture ladar (ISAL) can achieve high-resolution imaging of satellite targets. However, because the amplitudes of satellite microvibration are comparable to the ladar wavelength, the echoes will contain both space-varian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,426 Views
19 Pages

A Modified Range Doppler Algorithm for High-Squint SAR Data Imaging

  • Yanan Guo,
  • Pengbo Wang,
  • Zhirong Men,
  • Jie Chen,
  • Xinkai Zhou,
  • Tao He and
  • Lei Cui

26 August 2023

The high-squint airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has the ability to detect the target area flexibly, and the detection swath is significantly increased compared with the side-looking SAR system. Therefore, it is of great significance to carry...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Radar Signal Processing and Applications)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,685 Views
14 Pages

29 April 2022

Azimuthal multi-angle observation (AMAO) is a novel spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technique proposed recently, which significantly improves the acquisition performance of target information. It has highly flexible antenna beams with power...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Imaging Theory, Techniques, and Applications II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,317 Views
20 Pages

With the increasing frequency of marine activities, the significance of underwater target search and rescue has been highlighted, where precise and efficient path planning is critical for ensuring search effectiveness. This study proposes an underwat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater Acoustics: Advances in Modelling, Measurement, and Technological Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,754 Views
14 Pages

In Situ Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Investigations of the Nonlinear Deformation Behavior of a Low Modulus β-Type Ti36Nb5Zr Alloy

  • Qingkun Meng,
  • Huan Li,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Shun Guo,
  • Fuxiang Wei,
  • Jiqiu Qi,
  • Yanwei Sui,
  • Baolong Shen and
  • Xinqing Zhao

2 December 2020

The low modulus β-type Ti alloys usually have peculiar deformation behaviors due to their low phase stability. However, the study of the underlying mechanisms is challenging since some physical mechanisms are fully reversible after the release o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Titanium and Its Alloys for Biomedical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,230 Views
23 Pages

14 June 2024

For ultra-high-resolution (UHR) squint spotlight airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the severe range-azimuth coupling caused by squint mode and the spatial and frequency dependence of the motion error brought by ultra-wide bandwidth both make i...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensing Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,950 Views
22 Pages

12 May 2024

In this paper, we propose a geometric channel model for air-to-air (A2A) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communication scenarios. The model is established by incorporating line-of-sight, specular reflection, and diffuse scattering components, and it ca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technologies and Applications of UAV Channel Models in Communications and Spectrum Awareness)
  • Article
  • Open Access
345 Views
25 Pages

This paper proposes a spatial analog of the compass rose, constructed using finite fields and the discrete logarithm operation. The basic idea is to match the geometric elements of regular and semiregular polyhedra with elements of Galois fields (GF)...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Engineering)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,112 Views
16 Pages

13 June 2024

For a multi-hydrophone synthetic aperture sonar (SAS), the instability of the platform and underwater turbulence easily lead to two-dimensional (2-D) space-variant (SV) motion errors. Such errors can cause serious imaging problems and are very diffic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Array Signal Processing for Target Imaging and Detection (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,454 Views
12 Pages

A Novel Scheme for MIMO-SAR Systems Using Rotational Orbital Angular Momentum

  • Xiangxi Bu,
  • Zhuo Zhang,
  • Xingdong Liang,
  • Longyong Chen,
  • Haibo Tang,
  • Zheng Zeng and
  • Jie Wang

18 October 2018

The vortex electromagnetic (EM) wave with orbital angular momentum (OAM) brings a new degree of freedom for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, although to date, its application to multi-input multi-output (MIMO) SAR has not yet been widely repor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Technology: New Perspectives Offered by New-Generation and Forthcoming SAR Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,468 Views
23 Pages

A Subaperture Motion Compensation Algorithm for Wide-Beam, Multiple-Receiver SAS Systems

  • Jiafeng Zhang,
  • Guangli Cheng,
  • Jinsong Tang,
  • Haoran Wu and
  • Zhen Tian

Uncompensated motion errors can seriously affect the imaging quality of synthetic aperture sonars (SASs). In the existing line-by-line motion compensation (MOCO) algorithms for wide-beam multiple-receiver SAS systems, the approximate form of the rang...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Underwater Perception and Sensing with Robotic Sensors and Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,513 Views
25 Pages

28 December 2025

This study introduces an amplitude-based method that applies Spatially Variant Apodization (SVA) to reduce sidelobes in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data. Unlike conventional approaches, the filter is applied only to the amplitude while preserving...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
938 Views
24 Pages

27 October 2025

Relatively uniform consumption of a large amount of electrical energy intended for the current operation of the equipment of multi-story student dormitories indicates several actions aimed at renovation of these dormitories using photovoltaic install...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Buildings and Green Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
363 Views
22 Pages

Direction of arrival (DoA) estimation is a fundamental problem in modern communication systems, such as 5G/6G cellular systems, V2X, and radar. Modern DoA estimation techniques enhance signal reception, mitigate interference, enhance communication ef...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Technology in Wireless Communication)