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Extension of Polar Format Scene Size Limits to Squinted Geometries
Matthew Steven Horvath
出版
Wright State University
, 2012
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-RWktQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
The Polar Format Algorithm (PFA) is an often used algorithm to image synthetic aperture radar (SAR) phase history data. The algorithm relies on a far-field approximation wherein the curved wavefront of the transmitted pulses is approximated as a planar wavefront, introducing spatially variant phase errors in the phase history. While allowing for faster image formation compared to more exact imaging algorithms such as convolution backprojection, these phase errors lead to the distortion and defocus of point targets, degrading the quality of the resulting imaged scene. Historically, a Taylor expansion has been used to approximate the phase errors leading to distortion and defocus based on the dominant second-order approximation to a differential range expression. This thesis extends the previous study of these errors for broadside imaging scenarios to squinted imaging scenarios. The complications of the squinted geometry requires an additional Taylor expansion process to approximate linear and quadratic terms of the approximated phase error, yielding the distortion and defocus approximations respectively. These approximations are calculated based on both the conventional dominant polynomial error (DPE) described above and the true differential range error (DRE). The accuracy of these approximations is demonstrated, after which a bounding process is used to yield the scene size limits.