SAR Image Quality Analysis Model

Abstract

The report describes a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) image quality analysis and an image quality model incorporating the conclusions of the image quality analysis into a SAR system digital simulation. The objective of the model and its development program is to provide a fundamental approach for SAR image quality effects for specific SAR systems (parameter combinations performing specific missions). The model thus provides a relatively economical prediction of the information which can be extracted from a specified radar- mission configuration. The model output is a collection of image quality assessment functions, in particular the TQF (Threshold Quality Factor). Other parameters, which indicate the performance of the SAR system, are available from the digital simulation. These include the point target response (both range and azimuth) along with their locations for a preselected target field configuration.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1974
Accession Number
AD0785398

Entities

People

  • B. H. Friberg
  • D. A. Ausherman
  • H. W. Doss
  • M. B. Evans
  • Ralph H. Mitchel
  • W. D. Hall

Organizations

  • Environmental Research Institute of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Flight Simulators
  • Frequency Bands
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Navigation
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Radar
  • Simulations
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Radar Systems Engineering.