Is a curved flight path in SAR better than a straight one?

DOI10.1137/120882639zbMATH Open1291.35448OpenAlexW2065207910MaRDI QIDQ2862280FDOQ2862280

Authors Gunther Uhlmann, Plamen Stefanov 

Publication date 14 November 2013

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0861

zbMATH Keywords

SARsingularitieswave frontmicrolocal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30)

Abstract: In the plane, we study the transform $R_{g}ammaf$ of integrating a unknown function $f$ over circles centered at a given curve $gamma$. This is a simplified model of SAR, when the radar is not directed but has other applications, like thermoacoustic tomography, for example. We study the problem of recovering the wave front set $WF(f)$. If the visible singularities of $f$ hit $gamma$ once, we show that the "artifacts" cannot be resolved. If $gamma$ is a closed curve, we show that this is still true. On the other hand, if $f$ is known a priori to have singularities in a compact set, then we show that one can recover $WF(f)$, and moreover, this can be done in a simple explicit way, using backpropagation for the wave equation.

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