Sar Gmti
Sar Gmti
Sar Gmti
AFRL / RYAP,
Wright-Patterson AFB OH, USA
I.
INTRODUCTION
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PHASE
CHARACTERISTICS
50s
Concept
Development
60s
Optical SAR
- optical processing
- non-real time
70s
Digital SAR
Inverse SAR
90s
Matured SAR
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UAV SAR
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Several interesting
approximately aligned up.
n these two images,
features can be noticed between
radar vs optical, and 1971 vs 2013. Notice the
changes in the inner harbor in paarticular. This SAR
image was obtained during inten
ntional maneuvers of
10-deg and 2000-ft. We werre limited mostly by
the gimbal angle limit of 60-deg
grees. So, we asked
the pilot to keep the maneuvers < 15-degs. There
ns in the image, as
were no noticeable degradation
geometric fidelity and linearitty appeared to be
accurately preserved during thesee maneuvers.
III.
hniques
GMTI Tech
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DPCA Processing
DPCA achieves its clutter rejection by aligning the
apertures in space on two successive PRIs. Thus
clutter cancellation by a two pulse canceller should
be near perfect.
In practice the two pulse
cancellation is applied after Doppler filtering
individually and adaptively on each Doppler filter.
Hence it looks and performs about the same as CSI.
A very simple view of DPCA clutter canceling is
presented here.
Consider the simple geometry
illustrated in Fig. 3. For this simple case there is a
single piece of clutter. Consider a pair of pulses.
The radar transmits and receives on the fore antenna
at time t1 and then transmits and receives on the rear
antenna at time t2. These two events are labeled 1
and 2 in the figure.
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1
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Moving
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VI.
February 2011.
The DCR had its maiden flight on 13 F
This data has been processed and good imagery
generated. Data was collected on eightt runs, seven of
the Whiteman Airport area and one, thee 6th run, of the
nearby I5 area. This Run 6 data was processed via
DPCA, and the MTI detections were then added to
the sum channel map. Here we show the advantage
moving targets
of the dual-channels for extracting m
embedded in the SAR imagery.
In the top of Fig. 8 we show the Sum bbeam image of
a Freeway Area in Pacoima CA, whichh is formed by
combining the SAR images from thhe two phase
centers. In the bottom of Fig. 8, is shown the
difference channel image that wa s formed by
CA processing.
subtracting the two images via DPC
Here the stationary clutter is canceelled, but the
moving targets are not and show up aas bright spots.
Finally, in Fig. 9 we show the SAR GM
MTI image that
was formed by adding the differrence channel
detections on to the SAR sum beam image. These
detections are shown as small red dots.
VII.
Results
WAS SAR / GMTI R
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WAS MTI
WAS Images
MTI
PPI
PPI
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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"The views expressed in this article are those of the author(s) and
do not reflect official policy of the United States Air Force,
Department of Defense or the U.S. Government."
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