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A novel PRF-ambiguity resolver

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Abstract

Determining the Doppler centroid is indispensable for high-precision synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing. The Doppler frequency estimated from azimuth spectra, however, suffers from the fact that the data are sampled with the pulse repetition frequency (PRF), and an ambiguity about the correct PRF band remains. An algorithm to resolve this ambiguity is proposed. It uses the fact that the Doppler centroid depends linearly on the transmitted radar frequency for a given antenna squint angle. This dependence is not subject to PRF ambiguities. It can be measured by Fourier transforming the SAR data in range direction and estimating the Doppler centroid at each range frequency. The theoretically achievable accuracy is given and is verified with Seasat data of different scene content. The algorithm works best with low contrast scenes. It needs no iterative processing of the SAR data and causes only low computational load.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigest - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Editors Anon
PublisherPubl by IEEE
Pages1035-1038
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)0879426756
StatePublished - 1991
Event1991 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS'91 - Espoo, Finl
Duration: 3 Jun 19916 Jun 1991

Publication series

NameDigest - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
Volume2

Conference

Conference1991 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS'91
CityEspoo, Finl
Period3/06/916/06/91

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