SAR Imaging via Modern 2-D Spectral Estimation Methods. Volume 1. Imaging Methods.
Abstract
This report discusses the use of modern 2-D spectral estimation algorithms for SAR imaging, and makes two principal contributions to the field of adaptive SAR imaging. First, it is a comprehensive comparison of 2-D spectral estimation methods for SAR imaging. It provides a synopsis of the algorithms available, discusses their relative merits for SAR imaging, and illustrates their performance on simulated and collected SAR imagery. The discussion of autoregressive linear predictive techniques (ARLP), including the Tufts Kumaresan variant, is somewhat more general than appears in most of the literature, in that it allows the prediction element to be varied throughout the subaperture. This generality leads to a theoretical link between ARLP and one of Pisarenko's methods. The report also provides a theoretical analysis that predicts the impact of the adaptive sidelobe reduction (ASR) algorithm on target to clutter ratio and provides insight into order and constraint selection. Second, this work develops multi-channel variants of three related algorithms, minimum variance method (MVM), reduced rank MVM (RRMVM), and ASR to estimate both reflectivity intensity and interferometric height from polarimetric displaced-aperture interferometric data. Examples illustrate that MVM and ASR both offer significant advantages over Fourier methods for estimating both scattering intensity and interferometric height, and allow empirical comparison of the accuracies of Fourier, MVM, and- ometric height estimates.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA303498
Entities
People
- S. R. Degraaf
Organizations
- Environmental Research Institute of Michigan