Basic radar systems use electromagnetic wave reflections from targets to determine the motion characteristics of these targets. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems use the reflections to produce target images as well. SAR is an imaging radar system that produces high resolution images of a scene or target by using radar motion to synthesize the antenna aperture. A SAR model to handle extende...

Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Simulated in MATLAB Matthew Schlutz This thesis further develops a method from ongoing thesis projects with the goal of generating images using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simulations coded in MATLAB. The project is supervised by Dr. John Saghri and sponsored by Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems. SAR is a type of imaging radar in which the relative movement...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is an imaging radar form by taking full advantage of the relative movement of the antenna with respect to the target. Through the simultaneous processing of the radar reflections over the movement of the antenna via the Range Doppler Algorithm (RDA), the superior resolution of a theoretical wider antenna, termed synthetic aperture, is obtained. Therefore, SAR can ...

Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (Pol.-SAR) allows us to implement the recognition and classification of radar targets. This article investigates the arrangement of scatterers by SAR data and proposes a new Look-up Table of Region (LTR). This look-up table is based on the combination of (entropy H/Anisotropy A) and (Anisotropy A/scattering mechanism α), which has not been reported up now. ...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) based on frequency modulated continuous wave (FM-CW) transmission is a viable option for producing high resolution microwave imagery at low heights. In this paper, we show detailed analytical simulation for stripmap mode of FM-CW SAR imaging alongwith SAR images generated from actual airborne FM-CW radar video data collection. Key words—FM-CW, SAR, Range-Doppler, UAV

in this paper, an unsupervised method for change detection in the multitemporal multipolarization synthetic aperture radar (sar) imagery is proposed. a matrix distance measure, named symmetric revised wishart is used as a test statistic in order to assess the similarity of two multitemporal multilook polarimetric sar data and a variance-based thresholding algorithm is applied to the test statis...

An improved range-Doppler algorithm (RDA) is proposed to reconstruct images from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data received at high squint angles. At a higher squint angle, a larger synthetic aperture is required to receive sufficient amount of data for image reconstruction, and the range migration also becomes more serious, which demands more computational load and larger memory size. The pr...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) equipment is a radar imaging system that can be used to create high resolution images of a scene by utilising the movement of a flying platform. Knowledge of the platform’s trajectory is essential to get good and focused images. An emerging application field is real-time SAR imaging using small and cheap platforms with poorer navigation systems implying unfocused ...

a fast and accurate synthetic aperture radar raw data generator of moving targets has high importance, especially in the applications of ground moving target indication. in this paper, in the hybrid time-frequency domain, a fast algorithm for strip mode sar raw data generation of moving targets has been proposed. using this simulator, in different conditions in terms of target motion speed, acc...

In this paper, a new method is proposed for unsupervised speckle level estimation in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. It is assumed that fully developed speckle intensity has a Gamma distribution. Based on this assumption, estimation of the equivalent number of looks (ENL) is transformed into noise variance estimation in the logarithmic SAR image domain. In order to improve estimation acc...