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Flight path-driven mitigation of wavefront curvature effects in SAR images

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OSTI ID:982373
A wavefront curvature effect associated with a complex image produced by a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) can be mitigated based on which of a plurality of possible flight paths is taken by the SAR when capturing the image. The mitigation can be performed differently for different ones of the flight paths.
Research Organization:
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
Assignee:
Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)
Patent Number(s):
7,551,119
Application Number:
11/970,631
OSTI ID:
982373
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Range-Doppler Imaging of Rotating Objects journal January 1980
General formulation for wavefront curvature correction in polar-formatted spotlight-mode SAR images using space-variant post-filtering conference January 1997
Space-variant filtering for correction of wavefront curvature effects in spotlight-mode SAR imagery formed via polar formatting conference July 1997
Space-Variant Post-Filtering for Wavefront Curvature Correction in Polar-Formatted Spotlight-Mode SAR Imagery report October 1999