A grating lobes suppression method for chirp-subpulse stepped frequency（CSSF） signals is proposed, which is applied to deformation monitoring using the ground based synthetic aperture radar（GB-SAR） system. This me...A grating lobes suppression method for chirp-subpulse stepped frequency（CSSF） signals is proposed, which is applied to deformation monitoring using the ground based synthetic aperture radar（GB-SAR） system. This method is based on accurate estimation and correction of the phase and amplitude error along two dimensions（range and azimuth）, i.e., the error estimation inside the subpulse（in-subpulse error） and across the stepped frequency subpulses（cross-subpulse error） of transmitted CSSF signals. Validated both with simulated data and experimental data recorded in the deformation monitoring campaign, it can be seen that the method as well as the relative conclusions can be fully and effectively applied to most of the stepped frequency systems.展开更多
To prevent the long-time coherent integration and limited range window stumbling blocks of stretch processing and reduce computational complexity, a novel method called multi-subpulse process of large time-bandwidth p...To prevent the long-time coherent integration and limited range window stumbling blocks of stretch processing and reduce computational complexity, a novel method called multi-subpulse process of large time-bandwidth product linear frequency modulating （ LFM ） signal （ i. e. chirp ） is proposed in this paper. The wideband chirp signal is split up into several compressed subpulses. Then the fast Fourier transform （FFT） is used to reconstruct the high resolution range profile （ HR- RP） in a relative short computation time. For multi-frame, pulse Doppler （PD） process is performed to obtain the two-dimension range-Doppler （R-D） high resolution profile. Simulations and field ex- perimental results show that the proposed method can provide high-quality target profile over a large range window in a short computation time and has the promising potential for long-time coherent in- tegration.展开更多
A novel method,referred to as joint multiple subpulses processing,is developed to calibrate the nonideal transfer function of radio frequency front-end and I/Q imbalance in quadrature modulate/demodulate systems simul...A novel method,referred to as joint multiple subpulses processing,is developed to calibrate the nonideal transfer function of radio frequency front-end and I/Q imbalance in quadrature modulate/demodulate systems simultaneously,which frequently occur in wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) systems.Based on the time-frequency relation of the chirp signal and the analyses of the channel errors in wideband SAR,joint multiple subpulses processing method is adopted to separate the image frequency component due to the I/Q channel error.Then,the complete description of the channel error is acquired for building the correction function,which is used to correct the radar raw echo in frequency domain.The validity and capability of this method are demonstrated by the experiments of the channel error correction on the high resolution SAR system with the effective bandwidth of 500 MHz.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6112010600461225005)
文摘A grating lobes suppression method for chirp-subpulse stepped frequency（CSSF） signals is proposed, which is applied to deformation monitoring using the ground based synthetic aperture radar（GB-SAR） system. This method is based on accurate estimation and correction of the phase and amplitude error along two dimensions（range and azimuth）, i.e., the error estimation inside the subpulse（in-subpulse error） and across the stepped frequency subpulses（cross-subpulse error） of transmitted CSSF signals. Validated both with simulated data and experimental data recorded in the deformation monitoring campaign, it can be seen that the method as well as the relative conclusions can be fully and effectively applied to most of the stepped frequency systems.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61301189)
文摘To prevent the long-time coherent integration and limited range window stumbling blocks of stretch processing and reduce computational complexity, a novel method called multi-subpulse process of large time-bandwidth product linear frequency modulating （ LFM ） signal （ i. e. chirp ） is proposed in this paper. The wideband chirp signal is split up into several compressed subpulses. Then the fast Fourier transform （FFT） is used to reconstruct the high resolution range profile （ HR- RP） in a relative short computation time. For multi-frame, pulse Doppler （PD） process is performed to obtain the two-dimension range-Doppler （R-D） high resolution profile. Simulations and field ex- perimental results show that the proposed method can provide high-quality target profile over a large range window in a short computation time and has the promising potential for long-time coherent in- tegration.
基金Supported by the National High-Tech Research and Development Plan of China(No.2007AA120302)
文摘A novel method,referred to as joint multiple subpulses processing,is developed to calibrate the nonideal transfer function of radio frequency front-end and I/Q imbalance in quadrature modulate/demodulate systems simultaneously,which frequently occur in wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) systems.Based on the time-frequency relation of the chirp signal and the analyses of the channel errors in wideband SAR,joint multiple subpulses processing method is adopted to separate the image frequency component due to the I/Q channel error.Then,the complete description of the channel error is acquired for building the correction function,which is used to correct the radar raw echo in frequency domain.The validity and capability of this method are demonstrated by the experiments of the channel error correction on the high resolution SAR system with the effective bandwidth of 500 MHz.
