Synthetic Aperture Radar Height of Focus
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) projects a 3-D scene’s reflectivity into a 2-D image. In doing so, it generally focusses the image to a surface, usually a ground plane. Consequently, scatterers above or below the focal/ground plane typically exhibit some degree of distortion manifesting as a geometric distortion and misfocusing or smearing. Limits to acceptable misfocusing define a Height of Focus (HOF), analogous to Depth of Field in optical systems. This may be exacerbated by the radar’s flightpath during the synthetic aperture data collection. It might also be exploited for target height estimation and offer insight to other height estimation techniques.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525
- OSTI ID:
- 1761028
- Report Number(s):
- SAND--2021-0144; 693310
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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