An efficient SAR parallel processor

A parallel architecture especially designed for a synthetic-aperture-radar (SAR) processing algorithm based on an appropriate two-dimensional fast Fourier transform (FFT) code is presented. The algorithm is briefly summarized, and the FFT code is given for the one-dimensional case, although all results can be immediately generalized to the double FFT. The computer architecture, which consists of a toroidal net with transputers on each node, is described. Parametric expressions for the computational time of the net versus the number of nodes are derived. The architecture allows drastic reduction of the processing time, preserving elaboration accuracy and flexibility     

On the false alarm probability for an overlapped FFT processor

A standard processor for detecting narrowband signals in noise applies the fast Fourier transform (FFT) to overlapped data blocks, and then sums the squared magnitudes of the bins from successive FFTs. The overlap of the data blocks causes these bins to be correlated, even when the noise is white. A simple expression is derived for the probability of false alarm when the covariance matrix of the FFT bins is tridiagonal     

一种基于MLS的SAR图像点特征提取方法

针对合成孔径雷达图像点特征提取问题,提出了一种基于MLS的SAR图像点特征提取方法.首先利用提出的基于超像素关联分析的SAR图像分割算法得到二值分割图像,再把该二值图像和SAR图像进行点乘运算,获取到含有强度信息的目标区域,然后采用移动最小二乘法(MLS)对目标区域进行曲面拟合,根据设定的点特征判决规则,最后提取出SAR图像的峰值、脊和谷等多种点特征.基于MSTAR数据的实验结果表明了该方法的有效性和准确性.     

两片TS101联合实现FFT运算

在综合分析 TS101内部结构和 FFF 算法的基础上,结合由两片TS101组成的信号处理板硬件平台的研制,提出了一个并行处理加多片联合来实现浮点复数 FFT 运算的方法,将一个比较大的 FFT 处理任务分配在多片上并行执行。经过对模拟数据的仿真分析,该方法在保证精确估计中心频率的前提下,较好地提高了运算速度。     

A Quantitative Study of Pitfalls in the FFT

The effects of aliasing (including pseudoaliasing), picket-fence effect, and leakage in the fast Fourier transform (FFT) are presented. A computer program was written to perform the FFT analysis of known inputs. The program has the capability of detecting aliasing by calculating an "aliasing coefficient" (Q), and will increase the sampling frequency and the number of points in the input sequence if aliasing occurs. The term "pseudoaliasing" is a phenomenon which is similar to aliasing (or fold-over) but related to the effects of picket fence and leakage. The "leakage coefficient" (ri) is a quantitative measure of the deviation from the fundamental frequency component with respect to the sampling frequency, when the input sequence has only one frequency component.     

基于马尔科夫链的单站SAR海面场景宽幅高分成像算法

针对单站合成孔径雷达(SAR)实现海面场景高分辨率宽测绘带(HRWS)成像问题,结合海面目标相对整个场景的稀疏特性,提出了一种基于马尔科夫链的单站SAR宽幅高分成像算法。算法将宽幅的海面场景分为不同子测绘带,首先发射少量脉冲对各子测绘带进行距离向成像,利用距离向成像结果获取场景内感兴趣目标的数量信息。然后计算雷达波束指向的马尔科夫状态转移概率,并按此概率控制雷达对不同测绘带进行扫描。获得不同测绘带的稀疏子孔径后进行压缩感知成像。提出的算法可以在相同合成孔径时间内实现多个测绘带的宽幅高分成像,最后的仿真实验验证了所提算法的有效性。     

基于多控制面的二元机翼扭转变形抑制研究

针对前掠机翼的扭转发散,以加装前、后缘控制面且刚心靠后的二元机翼为模型,基于CFD/CSD松耦合静气弹数值计算方法,提出了一种基于多控制面的二元机翼扭转变形抑制方法。计算结果表明,前缘控制面单独上偏时,气动特性较差,扭转变形特性较好;后缘控制面单独下偏时,气动特性较好,扭转变形特性较差;前、后缘控制面联合偏转时,融合了两者单独偏转时各自的优势,在尽量减少气动性能损失的基础上降低了扭转变形峰值。该研究可为多控制面在前掠翼扭转发散主动抑制中的应用提供参考。     

一种复合的SAR压制干扰方法研究

覆盖式干扰是一种对合成孔径雷达有效的干扰样式,有效覆盖面积是评价覆盖干扰效果的重要指标之一,如何有效地对干扰范围进行扩展是研究的热点问题,具有较高的研究价值。在介绍3种不同干扰方法的原理与干扰效果之后,对方法进行了结合,提出了1种可以有效扩展干扰区域范围的干扰模型。方法以二维锯齿调频干扰为基础,利用频移干扰扩展距离向干扰区域,利用方位向间歇采样技术扩展方位向干扰区域。不仅原理简单,更加利于工程实现。最后,利用单一点目标对方法进行了验证,仿真实验的结果证实了方法的准确性与可靠性。     

A flexible processor for a digital adaptive array radar

A digital beamforming processor for an adaptive array radar is described. The functionality and the architecture of the processor are strongly driven by a goal of achieving adaptive null depths in the 60-dB to 70-dB range, which necessitates substantial preprocessing of each channel. In particular, conversion to baseband quadrature channels is accomplished digitally using a single A/D converter per channel, and FIR (finite impulse response) equalizing filters are employed in each channel to match channel transfer functions. The processor is highly modular, and this not only distributes the total processing load, but also the I/O (input/output) bandwidth requirement. This is accomplished by distributing the adaptive beamforming algorithm systolically across a linear array of processing nodes. The processor is expandable to a different number of channels and sufficiently flexible to be applied to other problems of an array signal processing nature. Experimental data presented demonstrate that the processor is capable of supporting channel-to-channel cancellation of interfering signals to the level of -65 dB     

A Raw Signal Simulator for Bistatic SAR

This article proposes a new efficient raw signal simulator for the bistatic synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based on 2D fast Fourier transform (FFT) to deal with cases of both ideal trajectory and trajectory deviation. It begins with analyzing the geometric configuration and the range history of the bistatic SAR in side-looking and squint modes of ideal trajectory as well as trajectory deviation. Then a detailed and mathematical study is conducted on the equivalence relation of bistatic-to-monostatic applications (BTMA) in the case of ideal trajectory and trajectory deviation. Also a set of formulas are derived for the equivalence relation between bistatic SAR and monostatic SAR on some reasonable assumptions. Therefore, the application of the simulation method based on the 2D FFT for the monostatic SAR can be extended to the case of bistatic SAR. Finally, the simulation results prove the validity of this method. By comparing the efficiency of the proposed method with that of the time domain method, it is shown that the former is a few orders of magnitude higher.     

Frequency hop multiple access codes based upon the theory of cubiccongruences

The need for families of frequency-hop codes which have mutually small auto-ambiguity and cross-ambiguity functions is discussed. Current coding methods are reviewed. A new family of frequency-hop codes based upon the number-theoretic concept of cubic congruences is introduced. It is shown that for about 50% of the prime numbers, families of full codes exist which have at most two coincidences for any time-frequency shift in their auto-ambiguity functions and at most three coincidences in the set of mutual cross-ambiguity functions     

A new fourth-order processing algorithm for spaceborne SAR

A new fourth-order signal aperture radar (SAR) processing algorithm has been developed for a general satellite-Earth relative motion. The two-dimensional exact transfer function (ETF) is calculated and range-variant phase corrections have been calculated in order to process many azimuth lines per block. The ETF together with the phase corrections has been called the fourth-order EETF (extended ETF). It is also shown that a fourth-order EETF is necessary to process high quality images from spaceborne SAR with long integration times with spatial resolution around 1 m. The algorithm is fast and is anticipated to have good phase preservation properties     

新型机载双通道SAR-GMTI实时算法

提出了一种用于机载双通道SAR的GMTI新算法,将自适应插值算法与多普勒频域DPCA相结合,先分析了新算法的原理,然后以一个距离误差系数不为正整数,并且有加速度存在的载机模型进行仿真.给出了使用新算法后的仿真结果,证明了算法的合理性和可靠性.     

SAR干扰效果研究

研究了对干扰前不同图像质量的合成孔径雷达(SAR)的干扰效果问题。从干扰前SAR图像质量指标积分旁瓣比(ISLR)入手,提出等效信干比的概念,建立积分旁瓣比与等效信干比的关系,分析等效信干比与发现概率、错误概率的关系,最后确定不同图像质量所对应的所需信干比。     

A Generalized Approach to Multiresolution Complex SAR Signal Processing

Multiresolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation has been proven to be beneficial in a variety of applications such as improved imaging and target detection as well as speckle reduction. SAR signal processing traditionally carried out in the Fourier domain has inherent limitations in the context of image formation at hierarchical scales. We present a generalized approach to the formation of multiresolution SAR images using biorthogonal shift-invariant discrete wavelet transform (SIDWT) in both range and azimuth directions. Particularly in azimuth, the inherent subband decomposition property of wavelet packet transform is introduced to produce multiscale complex matched filtering without involving any approximations. This generalized approach also includes the formulation of multilook processing within the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) paradigm. The efficiency of the algorithm in parallel form of execution to generate hierarchical scale SAR images is shown. Analytical results and sample imagery of diffuse backscatter are presented to validate the method.     

Theory and experiments on hard-limited SAR imaging

Known results in the area of hard-limited array theory are extended and generalized for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) applications in order to obtain a significant reduction of the required transmission channel bandwidth. The results provide a theoretical basis for subsequent numerical experiments related to the SIR-B mission. The SAR signal is hard-limited (at the offset frequency, after the heterodyne process) and filtered, and the restored signal is processed in the conventional way to obtain the image of the pertinent scene. Results of this experiment may be useful in assessing image degradation due to 1-b coding     

星载合成孔径雷达数学模型的研究

根据合成孔径雷达的基本原理，利用傅立叶变换的性质，详尽地给出了星载合成孔径雷达回波信号的数学模型的推导过程，以及相应的距离变化函数的展开过程，为模拟合成孔径雷达回波信号和对回波信号处理提供了数学依据。     

New SAR Processor Based on Matched Subspace Detectors

This paper deals with a new synthetic aperture radar (SAR) Processor based on a subspace detector designed for man-made target (MMT) detection. As MMTs are more accurately decribed by a set of canonical elements than with isotropic points, we develop a new algorithm which aims at using new models, instead of the isotropic point model commonly used in SAR processors. A subspace detector matched to canonical elements is included in the SAR processing. The implementation and the optimization of subspace detector SAR (SDSAR) algorithm is described. Simple examples of MMT detection in simulations and real data with a target hidden in a forest show the power of our approach. The SDSAR algorithm is shown to be the first robust and tractable algorithm relying on realistic scattering assumptions about the target.     

Predicting an upper bound on SAR ATR performance

We present a method for predicting a tight upper bound on performance of a vote-based approach for automatic target recognition (ATR) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. In such an approach, each model target is represented by a set of SAR views, and both model and data views are represented by locations of scattering centers. The proposed method considers data distortion factors such as uncertainty, occlusion, and clutter, as well as model factors such as structural similarity. Firstly, we calculate a measure of the similarity between a given model view and each view in the model set, as a function of the relative transformation between them. Secondly we select a subset of possible erroneous hypotheses that correspond to peaks in similarity functions obtained in the first step. Thirdly, we determine an upper bound on the probability of correct recognition by computing the probability that every selected hypothesis gets less votes than those for the model view under consideration. The proposed method is validated using MSTAR public SAR data, which are obtained under different depression angles, configurations, and articulations