CPC G01S 13/9011 (2013.01) [G01S 13/9094 (2013.01)] | 4 Claims |
1. A method for suppressing azimuth ambiguity of multi-channel SAR systems based on channel cancellation, characterized by comprising the following steps:
step 1, imaging echoes of the multi-channel SAR system based on a linear mapping reconstruction algorithm to obtain a reconstructed high-resolution wide-swath image;
step 2, estimating positions of the azimuth ambiguity regions of the reconstructed high-resolution wide-swath image and defining an azimuth ambiguity detection function r(τ,η) as:
r(τ,η)=log{{|L1(τ,η)|2}/{|L2(τ,η)}
wherein log {·} represents a natural logarithm operation, represents a spatial averaging operation, |·| represents an absolute value calculation operation of a complex number, and L1(τ,η) and L2(τ,η) respectively represent two multi-look images obtained by performing azimuth double-look on a reconstructed high-resolution wide-swath image, τ represents a range fast time and η represents an azimuth slow time;
step 3, extracting ambiguity images in the azimuth ambiguity regions based on channel cancellation and a refocusing algorithm, wherein
a linear combination coefficient ω(fη)=[ω1(fη), ω2(fn), . . . , ωN(fη)] for the-channel cancellation satisfies the following expression:
![]() wherein ωn(fη) represents the linear combination coefficient corresponding to the nth channel, n represents a serial number of a receiving channel, b represents a serial number of a Doppler interval, an azimuth frequency is
![]() fa represents an azimuth sampling rate of a single channel, fc represents a center frequency, Hn(fη) represents a transfer function of the nth receiving channel, and k represents an order of an azimuth ambiguity;
a form IMCC(τ,fn) of a image IMCC(τ,η) in the time domain after channel cancellation in a range-Doppler domain is:
![]() wherein pn(fη) represents a reconstruction coefficient of the nth channel in a reconstruction process, and In(τ,fη) represents a form of an image In(τ,η) in the time domain corresponding to the nth channel in the range-Doppler domain;
ambiguity refocusing and inverse defocusing are realized by phase multiplication in two-dimensional frequency domain, and a calculation method of refocusing is:
![]() wherein c represents the velocity of light, Vτ represents an equivalent imaging speed corresponding to the central range gate of the ambiguity region, f0 represents a carrier frequency, R0 represents a nearest slant range, fτ represents a distance frequency, r(1)(fτ,fη) represents an intermediate result, R(τ,η) represents a result of refocusing, * represents a complex conjugate operation, ⊗ represents a Hadamard product, K(fτ,fη) represents a two-dimensional frequency domain expression of an echo of an ideal point target, FFT2{·} represents a two-dimensional Fourier transform, and IFFT2{·} represents a two-dimensional inverse Fourier transform; and
an image RAmb(τ,η) corresponding to ambiguity pixels is obtained from a refocused image through classification of a mixed Gaussian ambiguity, and inverse refocusing is performed to obtain a ambiguity image IAmb(τ,η) corresponding to the ambiguity pixels:
IAmb(τ,η)=IFFT2{r(2)(fτ,fη)ωK′(fτ,fη)}
r(2)(fτ,fη)=FT2{RAmb(τ,η)}ωK(fτ,fη+kfa)
wherein r(2) represents an intermediate result; and
step 4, suppressing a repetitive blurred image in an echo of the echoes of the multi-channel SAR system.
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