Using Cramer-Rao Theory for SAR Waveform Design

Abstract

This paper applies Cramer-Rao theory to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) in order to establish optimal performance bounds on target parameter estimation. The Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) establishes a lower bound on the error variance of unbiased or asymptotically efficient parameter estimates. Bounds on the estimation of various target parameters are developed, and the extension to multistatic SAR (MSAR) is considered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA503564

Entities

People

  • David Brady
  • John Schindler
  • Leonid Perlovsky
  • Muralidhar (Murali) Rangaswamy
  • Robert Linnehan

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Aircrafts
  • Algorithms
  • Computational Complexity
  • Cooperative Control
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Flight Paths
  • Frequency
  • Ground Level
  • Radar
  • Simulations
  • Slant Range
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Statistical inference.