Windowing functions for SAR data with spectral gaps

Armin W. Doerry; Fred M. Dickey; Louis A. Romero

doi:10.1117/12.487265

12 September 2003 Windowing functions for SAR data with spectral gaps

Armin W. Doerry, Fred M. Dickey, Louis A. Romero

Proceedings Volume 5095, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery X; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.487265
Event: AeroSense 2003, 2003, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Synthetic Aperture Radar systems are being driven to provide images with ever-finer resolutions. This, of course, requires ever-wider bandwidths to support these resolutions in a number of frequency bands across the microwave (and lower) spectrum. The problem is that the spectrum is already quite crowded with a multitude of users, and a multitude of uses. For a radar system, this manifests itself as a number of 'stay-out' zones in the spectrum mandated by regulatory agencies; frequencies where the radar is not allowed to transmit. Even frequencies where the radar is allowed to transmit might be corrupted by interference from other legitimate (and/or illegitimate) users, rendering these frequencies useless to the radar system. In a SAR image, these spectral holes (by whatever source) degrade images, most notably by increasing objectionable sidelobe levels, most evident in the neighborhood of bright point-like objects. For contiguous spectrums, sidelobes in SAR images are controlled by employing window functions. However, those windows that work well for contiguous spectrums don't seem to work well for spectrums with significant gaps or holes. In this paper we address the question "Can some sorts of window functions be developed and employed to advantage when the spectrum is not contiguous, but contains significant holes or gaps?" A window function that minimizes sidelobe energy can be constructed based on prolate spheroidal wave functions. This approach is extended to accommodate spectral notches or holes, although the guaranteed minimum sidelobe energy can be quite high in this case.

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Armin W. Doerry, Fred M. Dickey, and Louis A. Romero "Windowing functions for SAR data with spectral gaps", Proc. SPIE 5095, Algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery X, (12 September 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.487265

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