High-Resolution Radar Imaging

Abstract

The goal of this project is to formulate and investigate new approaches for forming images of radar targets from spotlight-mode, delay- doppler measurements. These measurements can be acquired with a high-resolution radar-imaging operating with an optical- or radio-frequency carrier. Work in this reporting period has concentrated on our estimation-theory approach to forming high resolution images. This approach accounts for measurement noise and for the statistical properties of radar-backscatter data. Keywords: Maximum likelihood estimation; Radar images; Spectrum estimation methods.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 14, 1990
Accession Number
ADA220809

Entities

People

  • Donald L. Snyder

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computational Science
  • Data Science
  • Doppler Effect
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Equations
  • Estimators
  • Information Science
  • Information Theory
  • Laser Radar
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Signal Processing
  • Stationary Processes
  • Statistics
  • Stochastic Processes

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.