Method for automatic focusing of radar or sonar imaging systems using high-order measurements
AssigneeMultispec Corporation
InventorsChrysostomos L. Nikias, Vasilis Z. Marmarelis, Dae Cheol Shin
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Abstract
Automatic focusing of radar or sonar imaging systems, for example, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) or synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) systems, is accomplished by using high order measurements, such as the quadruple product of the range compressed signal g(x). The phase error is estimated by a recursive or non-recursive algorithm from the phase of the quadruple product. The estimated phase error is applied to the range-compressed SAR or SAS image data which is then azimuth compressed to obtain the focused image data.
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A method of correcting phase errors in imaging data, the steps of the method comprising:
- receiving range imaging data;
- generating multiple products of azimuth bins at selected range bins;
- obtaining the phase of the generated multiple products;
- estimating the phase errors of the received imaging data using the phases of the multiple products;
- and
- applying a phase correction based on the estimated phase errors to the received range imaging data to correct for the phase errors.
A method of correcting phase errors in synthetic aperture imaging data, the steps of the method comprising:
- receiving the range imaging data g(x) at a selected range bin for all azimuths x;
- generating a quadruple product of the received data g(x) at four different azimuths according to g.sub.4 (x.sub.1, x.sub.2, x.sub.3, x.sub.4)=g(x.sub.1)g(x.sub.2)g*(x.sub.3)g*(x.sub.4);
- where g*(x) is the complex conjugate of g(x);
- obtaining the phase .upsilon./.sub.4 of the quadruple product g.sub.4 (x.sub.1, x.sub.2, x.sub.3, x.sub.4) by
- .upsilon./.sub.4 (x.sub.1,x.sub.2,0,x.sub.1 +x.sub.2)=.phi..sub.e (x.sub.1)+.phi..sub.e (x.sub.2)-.phi..sub.e (0)-.phi..sub.e (x.sub.1 +x.sub.2),
- where .phi..sub.e is the estimated phase error;
- recursively estimating the phase errors by the relationship
- .phi..sub.e (i)=.phi..sub.e (j)+.phi..sub.e (i-j)-.upsilon./.sub.4 (j,i-j,0,i);
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- applying a phase correction to the received range imaging data to correct for the phase error.
A method for correcting the phase errors of a wavefront received at an array of multiple sensors, the steps of the method comprising:
- receiving wavefront data g(x) at said multiple sensors where x is sensor location;
- generating a quadruple product of the received data g(x) at four different sensor locations according to the relationship
- g.sub.4( x.sub.1, x.sub.2, 0, x.sub.1 +x.sub.2)=g(x.sub.1)g(x.sub.2)g*(0)g*(x.sub.1 +x.sub.2)
- where g*(x) is the complex conjugate of g(x);
- obtaining the phase .upsilon./.sub.4 of the quadruple product g.sub.4 (x.sub.1,x.sub.2,0,x.sub.1 +x.sub.2) by
- .psi.4(x.sub.1,x.sub.2,0,x.sub.1 +x.sub.2)=.phi..sub.e (x.sub.1)+.phi..sub.e (x.sub.2)-.phi..sub.e (0)-.phi..sub.e (x.sub.1 +x.sub.2);
- .upsilon./.sub.4 (x.sub.1,x.sub.2,0,x.sub.1 +x.sub.2)=.phi..sub.e (x.sub.1)+.phi..sub.e (x.sub.2)-.phi..sub.e (0)-.phi..sub.e (x.sub.1 +x.sub.2);
- where .phi..sub.e is the estimated phase error;
- recursively estimating the phase error by the relationship
- .phi..sub.e (i)=.phi..sub.e (j)+.phi..sub.e (i-j)-.upsilon./.sub.4 (j,i-j,0,i);
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- applying a phase correction to the data received at each sensor element, except for one reference element.
A method of correcting phase errors in sensor array imaging data, the steps of the method comprising:
- receiving range imaging data;
- generating multiple products of sensor locations at selected range bins;
- obtaining the phase of the generated multiple products;
- estimating the phase errors of the received range imaging data using the phase of the generated multiple products;
- and
- applying a phase correction based on the estimated phase errors to the received range imaging data to correct for the phase errors.
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