Spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems, operating at L-band or lower, are very susceptible to ionospheric scintillation. The scintillation phase error (SPE) can bring about serious azimuth decorrelation and resolution loss. Compared with the motion phase error, the SPE takes on a much stronger spatial-variation both in along-track and across-track orientations, and its anisotropic feature makes the compensation more intractable. In this article, the phase gradient autofocus (PGA) is used for the first time to compensate the spatial-varying and anisotropic SPE for spaceborne SAR images. It begins with achieving a reliable SPE estimate by applying PGA to a strong scatterer. According to the preknowledge of the phase screen altitude and the anisotropic elongation heading, the emphasis is then on estimating the SPEs for other pixels from the well-estimated SPE, based on the mutual correlation and overlapping of SPEs. The pixel-by-pixel strategy is adopted for the final compensation. The proposed methodology is very appropriate for SAR images with few corner reflectors, which is validated on a simulated L-band stripmap data and a PALSAR-2 spotlight real data. It shows more powerful utility than the classical PGA. The performance analysis is implemented with regard to two necessary factors, which further confirms the effectiveness of the proposed methodology.


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    Titel :

    An Autofocus Approach With Applications to Ionospheric Scintillation Compensation for Spaceborne SAR Images


    Beteiligte:
    Ji, Yifei (Autor:in) / Dong, Zhen (Autor:in) / Zhang, Yongsheng (Autor:in) / Zhang, Qilei (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    01.04.2022


    Format / Umfang :

    12118326 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch





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