Memorias de investigación
Research Publications in journals:
Superresolution versus Motion Compensation-Based Techniques for Radar Imaging Defense Applications
Year:2010

Research Areas
  • Electronic technology and of the communications

Information
Abstract
Radar imaging of noncooperative targets is an interesting application of all-weather high-resolution coherent radars. However, these images are usually blurred when using the standard range-Doppler algorithm, if a long coherent processing interval (CPI) is used, and motion compensation techniques are hence necessary to improve imaging quality. If the CPI is reduced enough, target scatterers do not migrate of resolution cells and their corresponding Doppler frequencies are constant. Hence, for a short CPI, motion compensation is not longer necessary, but Doppler resolution gets degraded. In that case, superresolution algorithms may be applied. Here, we compare the superresolution-based focusing techniques with motion compensation-based methods. Our conclusion is that imaging quality after employing the superresolution approaches is not improved and, consequently, the use of motion compensation-based approaches to focus the radar images cannot be circumvented. Simulated and real data from high-resolution radars have been used to make the comparisons.
International
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JCR
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Title
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
ISBN
1687-6172
Impact factor JCR
0,885
Impact info
Volume
2010
10.1155/2010/308379
Journal number
From page
1
To page
9
Month
ENERO
Ranking
Participants
  • Autor: José María Muñoz Ferreras Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Autor: Felix Perez Martinez UPM

Research Group, Departaments and Institutes related
  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Microondas y Radar
  • Departamento: Señales, Sistemas y Radiocomunicaciones