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Bistatic synthetic aperture radar imaging using wide-bandwidth continuous-wave sources

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Abstract

Monostatic and bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging systems with Wide-Bandwidth Continuous-Wave (WB-CW) sources have been utilized for military reconnaissance. WB-CW sources are less susceptible than FM-CW sources to Electronic Counter Measures (ECM). The main shortcoming of the WB-CW microwave illumination is that its resultant SAR echoed signal is not composed of distinct Doppler spreading around specific tones; this creates difficulties to formulate the image formation in the WB-CW SAR systems via the conventional pulse or FM-CW SAR imaging algorithms. The current paper outlines a Time Domain Correlation (TDC) processing method and a Fourier-based processing method for image formation in WB-CW monostatic and bistatic SAR systems. Results are provided.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)99-109
Number of pages11
JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume3462
DOIs
StatePublished - 1998
EventRadar Processing, Technology, and Applications III - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: Jul 20 1998Jul 20 1998

Keywords

  • Bistatic radar
  • FM-CW
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
  • WB-CW

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