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SAR System for UAV Operation with Motion Error Compensation beyond the Resolution Cell
Año:2008

Áreas de investigación
  • Procesado y análisis de la señal

Datos
Descripción
This paper presents an experimental Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system that is under development in the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. The system uses Linear Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (LFM-CW) radar with a two antenna configuration for transmission and reception. The radar operates in the millimeter-wave band with a maximum transmitted bandwidth of 2 GHz. The proposed system is being developed for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) operation. Motion errors in UAV operation can be critical. Therefore, this paper proposes a method for focusing SAR images with movement errors larger than the resolution cell. Typically, this problem is solved using two processing stept: first, coarse motion compensation based on the information provided by an Inertial Measuring Unit (IMU); and second, fine motion compensation for the residual errors within the resolution cell based on the received raw data. The proposed technique tries to focus the image without using data of an IMU. The method is based on a combination of the well know Phase Gradient Autofocus (PGA) for SAR imagery and typical algorithms for translacional motion compensation on Inverse SAR (ISAR). This paper shows the first real experiments for obtaining high resolution SAR images using a car as a mobile platform for our radar.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
Si
Título de la revista
SENSORS
ISSN
1424-8220
Factor de impacto JCR
1,573
Información de impacto
Volumen
8
DOI
10.3390/s8053384
Número de revista
1
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Participantes
  • Participante: Pablo Dorta Naranjo Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Autor: Jose Tomas Gonzalez Partida UPM
  • Autor: Pablo Almorox González UPM
  • Autor: Mateo Burgos Garcia UPM

Grupos de investigación, Departamentos, Centros e Institutos de I+D+i relacionados
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Microondas y Radar
  • Departamento: Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones