Synthetic-aperture technique for high-resolution composite imaging of the inside walls of tubular specimens

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 167-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hua Lee
Author(s):  
Donato Amitrano ◽  
Fabio Ciervo ◽  
Gerardo Di Martino ◽  
Maria Nicolina Papa ◽  
Antonio Iodice ◽  
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Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 3580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Wang ◽  
Ke-Hong Zhu ◽  
Li-Na Wang ◽  
Xing-Dong Liang ◽  
Long-Yong Chen

In recent years, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, which can promote the performance of 3D imaging, high-resolution wide-swath remote sensing, and multi-baseline interferometry, have received considerable attention. Several papers on MIMO-SAR have been published, but the research of such systems is seriously limited. This is mainly because the superposed echoes of the multiple transmitted orthogonal waveforms cannot be separated perfectly. The imperfect separation will introduce ambiguous energy and degrade SAR images dramatically. In this paper, a novel orthogonal waveform separation scheme based on echo-compression is proposed for airborne MIMO-SAR systems. Specifically, apart from the simultaneous transmissions, the transmitters are required to radiate several times alone in a synthetic aperture to sense their private inner-aperture channels. Since the channel responses at the neighboring azimuth positions are relevant, the energy of the solely radiated orthogonal waveforms in the superposed echoes will be concentrated. To this end, the echoes of the multiple transmitted orthogonal waveforms can be separated by cancelling the peaks. In addition, the cleaned echoes, along with original superposed one, can be used to reconstruct the unambiguous echoes. The proposed scheme is validated by simulations.


Author(s):  
J. Fagir ◽  
A. Schubert ◽  
M. Frioud ◽  
D. Henke

The fusion of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical data is a dynamic research area, but image segmentation is rarely treated. While a few studies use low-resolution nadir-view optical images, we approached the segmentation of SAR and optical images acquired from the same airborne platform – leading to an oblique view with high resolution and thus increased complexity. To overcome the geometric differences, we generated a digital surface model (DSM) from adjacent optical images and used it to project both the DSM and SAR data into the optical camera frame, followed by segmentation with each channel. The fused segmentation algorithm was found to out-perform the single-channel version.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2083 (3) ◽  
pp. 032048
Author(s):  
Tao He ◽  
Pengbo Wang ◽  
Jixiang Ma ◽  
Xinkai Zhou ◽  
Lingling Xue

Abstract The hyperbolic range equation model (HREM) and equivalent squint range model (ESRM) are applied in traditional chirp scaling algorithm (CSA). However, these range models cannot describe the satellite range history in the high-resolution case accurately because of the long azimuth integration time. The non-negligible phase error caused by this will lead the targets distort. In this paper, a modified chirp scaling algorithm (MCSA) is proposed by introducing a novel high-precision range model. A more accurate signal spectrum is calculated through it. Then, the modified chirp scaling factor, range compression filter, range cell migration correction (RCMC) filter and azimuth compression filter can be derived based on this signal spectrum, and the focused target obtained at last. Finally, the experimental results, to validate the proposed algorithm, adopted by the sliding spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simulation are provided.


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