Improved passive SAR imaging with DVB-T transmissions

Yue Fang, George Atkinson, Alp Sayin, Jie Chen, Pengbo Wang, Michail Antoniou, Mike Cherniakov

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Abstract

This article investigates passive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation using Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-T) transmitters of opportunity and an airborne receiver. The proposed airborne system does not use separate channels for direct and reflected signal reception. The proposed image formation algorithm suppresses artifacts due to the presence of the direct signal in radar echo data using modified CLEAN method and accounts for unknown irregularities in airborne platform motion using a map-drift autofocus (MDA) technique. The algorithms are theoretically derived and experimentally confirmed via an appropriate airborne campaign, and their experimental performance is measured.
Original languageEnglish
Article number9003519
Pages (from-to)1-11
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Volume58
Issue number7
Early online date19 Feb 2020
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 19 Feb 2020

Keywords

  • SAR autofocus
  • SAR image formation
  • Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcast (DVB-T)
  • digital video broadcasting
  • passive synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
  • radar imaging
  • receivers
  • signal processing algorithms
  • spaceborne radar
  • synthetic aperture radar

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