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

DOI10.1137/120882639zbMATH Open1291.35448arXiv1205.0861OpenAlexW2065207910MaRDI QIDQ2862280FDOQ2862280

Authors: Gunther Uhlmann, Plamen Stefanov 

Publication date: 14 November 2013

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

SARsingularitieswave frontmicrolocal

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inverse problems for PDEs (35R30)

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