Transionospheric synthetic aperture imaging (Q510176)

In this monograph a mathematical perspective on synthetic aperture imaging of the Earth's surface from satellites is presented. The main focus of this book is on the accurate quantitative description of the distortions of SAR images due to the ionosphere and on the development and analysis of the means for mitigating those distortions. In this book also the case of a turbulent ionospere and the case of a gyrotropic ionosphere are included. In addition, an account of the conventional SAR ambiguity theory is presented, the Doppler effect for SAR is studied, a detailed analysis of the start-stop approximation is provided, and a new model for radar targets that does not involve the first Born approximation is introduced. In this monograph the most recent mathematical developments in the analysis of ionospheric distortions of SAR images are presented. The book is full of open problems in this area, waiting for solving. The book has the strong mathematical character, without any practical examples and implementations. The mathematics in this book is clean and rigorous, however, without any formulated theorems and, what follows, without strictly formulated proofs. The book is intended for applied mathematicians interested in SAR or, in general, remote sensing, as well as physicists and electrical/electronic engineers who develope spaceborn SAR sensors and perform the data processing. The theory from this book can also be useful for researchers working on different types of imaging. Moreover, the book is accessible to graduate students in applied mathematics, physics, engineering, and related disciplines.