Interference Mitigation Effects on Synthetic Aperture Radar Coherent Data Products

Thesis/Dissertation · Thu May 01 04:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI ID:1173187

Musgrove, Cameron ^[1]

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1. Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK (United States)

For synthetic aperture radar image products interference can degrade the quality of the images while techniques to mitigate the interference also reduce the image quality. Usually the radar system designer will try to balance the amount of mitigation for the amount of interference to optimize the image quality. This may work well for many situations, but coherent data products derived from the image products are more sensitive than the human eye to distortions caused by interference and mitigation of interference. This dissertation examines the e ect that interference and mitigation of interference has upon coherent data products. An improvement to the standard notch mitigation is introduced, called the equalization notch. Other methods are suggested to mitigation interference while improving the quality of coherent data products over existing methods.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 1173187
• Report Number(s): SAND2014--20104T; 547434
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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