发明名称 PHASE DIFFERENCE AUTOFOCUS
摘要 FAST PHASE DIFFERENCE AUTOFOCUS A phase difference autofocus method that only requires one FFT for estimating a phase error in the entire synthetic array radar data The phase difference autofocus method of the present invention automatically and efficiently estimates phase errors from radar signals, allowing a well focused SAR image to be produced. The present method comprises the following steps. First, each range bin is divided into two subar-rays. Next, the two subarrays are complex-conjugate multiplied together to produce a cross spectrum of the two submaps produced by the subarrays. Then, the phases of each cross spectrum are aligned with an accumulated sum of the cross spectrums from previous processed range bins. The phase aligned cross spectrum is then added to the accumulated cross spectrum sum. All range bins are processed to get a final cross spectrum sum. Next, a single FFT is performed on the final cross spectrum sum to produce the cross correlation function. Then, the cross correlation function is magni-tude-detected. Since the location of the peak of the cross correlation function is proportional to the phase error, a phase error estimate is obtained. Finally, the phase error correction signal is produced for the entire synthetic array radar data. Since only one FFT is performed during autofocus processing, the method is relatively fast.
申请公布号 CA2083906(A1) 申请公布日期 1993.05.28
申请号 CA19922083906 申请日期 1992.11.26
申请人 HUGHES AIRCRAFT COMPANY 发明人 NIHO, YOJI G.;DAY, ERIC W.;FLANDERS, TAMMY L.
分类号 G01S13/90;(IPC1-7):G01S13/90 主分类号 G01S13/90
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