Research Summaries

Back Moving Targets in Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

Fiscal Year 2016
Division Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department Electrical & Computer Engineering
Investigator(s) Garren, David A.
Sponsor Air Force Research Laboratory (Air Force)
Summary The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) will investigate the basic signature phenomenology in synthetic aperture radar (SAR), with a special focus on maneuvering ground and other surface targets. This analysis will include a study of the effects of low radar frequency and wide bandwidth. This analysis will include the development of methods to automatically focus maneuvering surface targets in SAR. In addition, this study will include the development of waveform diversity methodologies for SAR image formation, including the effects of digital modulation techniques. Finally, this investigation will include the analysis of SAR methodologies for surface target detection, characterization, focusing, and classification. This work includes the application of analytic methods of advanced signal and image processing based upon realistic signal measurement models for sensors of interest. The resulting analytic equations are transformed into prototype engineering code, such as Matlab. Various resulting algorithms are applied to relevant simulated and measured image data sets in order to determine reliable and robust methods for analyzing moving target signatures within SAR image data. This work effort offers to develop a capability for reliable and efficient detection, focusing, classification, and identification of these challenging targets using available imagery.
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