TY - JOUR
T1 - A Range Grating Lobes Suppression Method for Stepped-Frequency SAR Imagery
AU - Ding, Zegang
AU - Guo, Yansu
AU - Gao, Wenbin
AU - Kang, Qi
AU - Zeng, Tao
AU - Long, Teng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/12
Y1 - 2016/12
N2 - Stepped-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system errors induce the periodic magnitude error and phase error (MEPE) in the synthesized wideband spectrum. The periodic MEPE results in periodic grating lobes in the high range resolution profile, which degrade the SAR image quality seriously. This paper presents a data-driven grating lobes suppression (GLS) method, named MEPE-GLS, to suppress grating lobes by estimating and compensating the periodic MEPE. Based on the dominant targets' image domain data, MEPE-GLS estimates the phase error and magnitude error by the weighted maximum-likelihood estimation and weighted least-squares estimation, respectively. In order to improve the signal-to-clutter-and-noise ratio (SCNR) of the data employed in the MEPE estimation, MEPE-GLS applies the discrete windows to selected targets to remove clutters between two adjacent grating lobes. Compared with conventional GLS methods, MEPE-GLS removes grating lobes effectively while at the same time preserves the original image information, and has no restriction on hardware, scenes, and spectrum reconstruction methods. Simulation and real data experiments validate the effectiveness and robustness of MEPE-GLS.
AB - Stepped-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system errors induce the periodic magnitude error and phase error (MEPE) in the synthesized wideband spectrum. The periodic MEPE results in periodic grating lobes in the high range resolution profile, which degrade the SAR image quality seriously. This paper presents a data-driven grating lobes suppression (GLS) method, named MEPE-GLS, to suppress grating lobes by estimating and compensating the periodic MEPE. Based on the dominant targets' image domain data, MEPE-GLS estimates the phase error and magnitude error by the weighted maximum-likelihood estimation and weighted least-squares estimation, respectively. In order to improve the signal-to-clutter-and-noise ratio (SCNR) of the data employed in the MEPE estimation, MEPE-GLS applies the discrete windows to selected targets to remove clutters between two adjacent grating lobes. Compared with conventional GLS methods, MEPE-GLS removes grating lobes effectively while at the same time preserves the original image information, and has no restriction on hardware, scenes, and spectrum reconstruction methods. Simulation and real data experiments validate the effectiveness and robustness of MEPE-GLS.
KW - Grating lobes suppression (GLS)
KW - magnitude error and phase error (MEPE)
KW - stepped-frequency synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
KW - weighted least-squares (WLS)
KW - weighted maximum-likelihood (WML)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84981719375&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2593711
DO - 10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2593711
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981719375
SN - 1939-1404
VL - 9
SP - 5677
EP - 5687
JO - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
JF - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
IS - 12
M1 - 7536169
ER -