J4 ›› 2012, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (5): 79-84+95.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2012.05.014

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Super-resolution imaging of forward-looking scan SAR

XU Gang;CHEN Qianqian;HOU Yuxing;LI Yachao;XING Mengdao   

  1. (National Key Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2011-06-27 Online:2012-10-20 Published:2012-12-13
  • Contact: XU Gang E-mail:xugang0102@126.com

Abstract:

A novel algorithm for super-resolution imaging based on the Compressive sensing theory for forward-looking SAR is proposed. Azimuth resolution is achieved by laying the practical linear array in a Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output mode. A narrow radiation pattern could be obtained using the beam-form technique to observe the small scene, which provides the sparsity prior of the SAR image. Then regularization is constructed by exploiting the sparsity prior and super-resolution could be realized by solving the optimization. Enhanced imaging resolution could be captured with a limited length of array, lowing the cost and complexity of the system. Numeric simulation results confirm the validation of the proposed algorithm.

Key words: forward-looking SAR, super-resolution, compressive sensing, sparsity