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http://dx.doi.org/10.5515/KJKIEES.2017.28.7.580

Performance Improvement of SAR Autofocus Based on Partition Processing  

Shin, Hee-Sub (LIG Nex1)
Ok, Jae-Woo (LIG Nex1)
Kim, Jin-Woo (LIG Nex1)
Lee, Jae-Min (LIG Nex1)
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Abstract
To compensate the degraded SAR image due to the residual errors and the spatial variant errors remaining after the motion compensation in the airborne SAR, we have introduced the autofocus method based on the partition processing. Thus, after we perform the spatial partition for the spotlight SAR data and the time partition for the stripmap SAR data, we reconstruct the subpatch images for the partitioned data. Then, we perform the local autofocus with the suitability analysis process for the phase errors estimated by the autofocus. Moreover, if the estimated phase errors are not properly compensated for the subpatch images, we perform the phase compensation method with the weight to the estimated phase error close to the degraded subpatch image to increase the SAR image quality.
Keywords
Airborne SAR; Autofocus; Partition Processing;
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