Motion estimation and imaging of complex scenes with synthetic aperture radar

DOI10.1088/0266-5611/29/5/054011zbMATH Open1294.78009arXiv1210.6024OpenAlexW3100959177MaRDI QIDQ5406705FDOQ5406705

Authors: L. Borcea, T. Callaghan, George Papanicolaou 

Publication date: 2 April 2014

Published in: Inverse Problems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging and motion estimation of complex scenes consisting of stationary and moving targets. We use the classic SAR setup with a single antenna emitting signals and receiving the echoes from the scene. The known motion estimation methods for such setups work only in simple cases, with one or a few targets in the same motion. We propose to extend the applicability of these methods to complex scenes, by complementing them with a data pre-processing step intended to separate the echoes from the stationary targets and the moving ones. We present two approaches. The first is an iteration designed to subtract the echoes from the stationary targets one by one. It estimates the location of each stationary target from a preliminary image, and then uses it to define a filter that removes its echo from the data. The second approach is based on the robust principle component analysis (PCA) method. The key observation is that with appropriate pre-processing and windowing, the discrete samples of the stationary target echoes form a low rank matrix, whereas the samples of a few moving target echoes form a high rank sparse matrix. The robust PCA method is designed to separate the low rank from the sparse part, and thus can be used for the SAR data separation. We present a brief analysis of the two methods and explain how they can be combined to improve the data separation for extended and complex imaging scenes. We also assess the performance of the methods with extensive numerical simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6024

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zbMATH Keywords

inverse problemsynthetic aperture radarspectral data analysisradar image processingmoving radar targets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory (94A08) Computing methodologies for image processing (68U10) Numerical methods for inverse problems for integral equations (65R32) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Inverse problems (including inverse scattering) in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A46) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Fourier coefficients, Fourier series of functions with special properties, special Fourier series (42A16)

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