Synthetic aperture radar （SAR） systems have become an important tool for fine-resolution mapping and other remote sensing operations. The multi-channel SAR ground moving-target indication （GMTI） must process its d...Synthetic aperture radar （SAR） systems have become an important tool for fine-resolution mapping and other remote sensing operations. The multi-channel SAR ground moving-target indication （GMTI） must process its data to produce not only the image of surveillance area but also the information of the ground moving-targets. The topic of moving-target detection in clutter has been extensively studied, and there are many methods that are used to detect moving targets, such as displaced phase center antenna （DPCA） method, along-track interfero-metric （ATI） phase, space-time adaptive processing （STAP）, or some other metrics. A canonical framework is proposed that encompasses all the multi-channel SAR-GMT methods, namely, DPCA and ATI. The statistical test metric for multi-channel SAR-GMTI is established in a simple form, via the definition of the complex central Wishart distribution, to deduce the statistics of the test metric, and the probability distribution of the test metric for multichannel SAR-GMTI has the complex central Wishart distribution of 1×1 case, namely the X^2 distribution. The theory foundation offers the possibility to construct the united multi-channel SAR-GMTI detector, and derives the constant false alarm rate （CFAR） detector tests for separating moving targets from clutter.展开更多
For multi-channel synthetic aperture radar（SAR） systems, since the minimum antenna area constraint is eliminated,wide swath and high resolution SAR image can be achieved.However, the unavoidable array errors, consis...For multi-channel synthetic aperture radar（SAR） systems, since the minimum antenna area constraint is eliminated,wide swath and high resolution SAR image can be achieved.However, the unavoidable array errors, consisting of channel gainphase mismatch and position uncertainty, significantly degrade the performance of such systems. An iteration-free method is proposed to simultaneously estimate position and gain-phase errors.In our research, the steering vectors corresponding to a pair of Doppler bins within the same range bin are studied in terms of their rotational relationships. The method is based on the fact that the rotational matrix only depends on the position errors and the frequency spacing between the paired Doppler bins but is independent of gain-phase error. Upon combining the projection matrices corresponding to the paired Doppler bins, the position errors are directly obtained in terms of extracting the rotational matrix in a least squares framework. The proposed method, when used in conjunction with the self-calibration algorithm, performs stably as well as has less computational load, compared with the conventional methods. Simulations reveal that the proposed method behaves better than the conventional methods even when the signal-to-noise ratio（SNR） is low.展开更多
Synthetic bandwidth technique is used to increase frequency bandwidth of the system and provides an effective way to achieve the ultra high resolution in the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). But in the actual ...Synthetic bandwidth technique is used to increase frequency bandwidth of the system and provides an effective way to achieve the ultra high resolution in the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). But in the actual SAR system, the synthesis result will be seriously deteriorated by the inner-channel and inter-channel phase error. A frequency domain synthetic bandwidth method based on transfer function extracting technique is proposed in an actual SAR system which consists of single wideband transmit channel and 8-way down-conversion receive sub-channels. The method can accurately get the amplitude and phase characteristics of the sub-channel and compensate the amplitude-phase errors. The final experimental results demonstrate the validity and feasibility of the method and the range resolution down to 0.1 m is obtained.展开更多
A real extended scene and moving targets multi-channel Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) raw signal simulator accounting for Inertial Navigation System(INS) errors and antenna patterns is presented in this paper. INS erro...A real extended scene and moving targets multi-channel Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) raw signal simulator accounting for Inertial Navigation System(INS) errors and antenna patterns is presented in this paper. INS errors are obtained by solving INS error differential equations with Runge-Kutta method. A high resolution SAR image is used to estimate the complex reflectance of real extended scene. Extended scene and moving target are simulated separately and then are superposed in time domain. The simulated multi-channel SAR data can be used for development of multi-channel SAR Ground Moving Target Indication(SAR-GMTI) and also can be used for development of SAR motion compensation.展开更多
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60472097 and 60502054)
文摘Synthetic aperture radar （SAR） systems have become an important tool for fine-resolution mapping and other remote sensing operations. The multi-channel SAR ground moving-target indication （GMTI） must process its data to produce not only the image of surveillance area but also the information of the ground moving-targets. The topic of moving-target detection in clutter has been extensively studied, and there are many methods that are used to detect moving targets, such as displaced phase center antenna （DPCA） method, along-track interfero-metric （ATI） phase, space-time adaptive processing （STAP）, or some other metrics. A canonical framework is proposed that encompasses all the multi-channel SAR-GMT methods, namely, DPCA and ATI. The statistical test metric for multi-channel SAR-GMTI is established in a simple form, via the definition of the complex central Wishart distribution, to deduce the statistics of the test metric, and the probability distribution of the test metric for multichannel SAR-GMTI has the complex central Wishart distribution of 1×1 case, namely the X^2 distribution. The theory foundation offers the possibility to construct the united multi-channel SAR-GMTI detector, and derives the constant false alarm rate （CFAR） detector tests for separating moving targets from clutter.
基金supported by the Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China(2015JM6278)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2015M582586)the China Academy of Space Technology Innovation Fund
文摘For multi-channel synthetic aperture radar（SAR） systems, since the minimum antenna area constraint is eliminated,wide swath and high resolution SAR image can be achieved.However, the unavoidable array errors, consisting of channel gainphase mismatch and position uncertainty, significantly degrade the performance of such systems. An iteration-free method is proposed to simultaneously estimate position and gain-phase errors.In our research, the steering vectors corresponding to a pair of Doppler bins within the same range bin are studied in terms of their rotational relationships. The method is based on the fact that the rotational matrix only depends on the position errors and the frequency spacing between the paired Doppler bins but is independent of gain-phase error. Upon combining the projection matrices corresponding to the paired Doppler bins, the position errors are directly obtained in terms of extracting the rotational matrix in a least squares framework. The proposed method, when used in conjunction with the self-calibration algorithm, performs stably as well as has less computational load, compared with the conventional methods. Simulations reveal that the proposed method behaves better than the conventional methods even when the signal-to-noise ratio（SNR） is low.
文摘Synthetic bandwidth technique is used to increase frequency bandwidth of the system and provides an effective way to achieve the ultra high resolution in the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). But in the actual SAR system, the synthesis result will be seriously deteriorated by the inner-channel and inter-channel phase error. A frequency domain synthetic bandwidth method based on transfer function extracting technique is proposed in an actual SAR system which consists of single wideband transmit channel and 8-way down-conversion receive sub-channels. The method can accurately get the amplitude and phase characteristics of the sub-channel and compensate the amplitude-phase errors. The final experimental results demonstrate the validity and feasibility of the method and the range resolution down to 0.1 m is obtained.
文摘A real extended scene and moving targets multi-channel Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) raw signal simulator accounting for Inertial Navigation System(INS) errors and antenna patterns is presented in this paper. INS errors are obtained by solving INS error differential equations with Runge-Kutta method. A high resolution SAR image is used to estimate the complex reflectance of real extended scene. Extended scene and moving target are simulated separately and then are superposed in time domain. The simulated multi-channel SAR data can be used for development of multi-channel SAR Ground Moving Target Indication(SAR-GMTI) and also can be used for development of SAR motion compensation.
