Considerations for autofocus of spotlight-mode SAR imagery created using a beamforming algorithm

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7337, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Charles Jr , V Jakowatz ^a   Daniel, E Wahla ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Autofocus; Back projection; Beamforming; PGA; Phase gradient autofocus; SAR image formation

Indexed keywords

AUTOFOCUS; BACK-PROJECTION; PGA; PHASE GRADIENT AUTOFOCUS; SAR IMAGE FORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; BEAMFORMING; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PROGRAMMED CONTROL SYSTEMS; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TRACKING RADAR;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 69749094449     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.820049     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. Charles V. Jakowatz, Jr., Daniel E. Wahl, David A. Yocky,Beamforming as a foundation for spotlight-mode SAR image formation by backprojection," Proc. of SPIE , Volume 6970, pp. 69700Q-69700Q-15 (2008).
2. Daniel E. Wahl, David A. Yocky, Charles V. Jakowatz, Jr., "An implementation of a fast backprojection image formation algorithm for spotlight-mode SAR," Proc. of SPIE, Volume 6970, pp. 69700H-69700H-11 (2008).
3. Charles V. Jakowatz, et al, Spotlight-Mode Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Signal Processing Approach, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1996.