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A Modified FSA Technique Using Full-aperture for SAR Spotlight Mode

SAR 집중조사모드를 위해 전 개구면을 사용하는 수정된 FSA 기법

  • Jung, Young-Kwang (Department of Mechanical & Control Engineering, Handong University) ;
  • Ra, Won-Sang (Department of Mechanical & Control Engineering, Handong University)
  • Received : 2016.05.16
  • Accepted : 2016.09.10
  • Published : 2016.10.01
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Abstract

In this paper, a modified FSA(Frequency Scaling Algorithm) is proposed for KOMPSAT-5 high-resolution SAR image generation. In order to enhance performance of azimuth compression, degraded in sub-aperture processing due to the imperfect geometric parameter of data acquisition, the full-aperture signal processing algorithm is designed based on the exact time-frequency analysis. In addition, an azimuth scaling function is newly devised to make the full-aperture processing algorithm suitable for KOMPSAT-5 sliding-spotlight mode. Different from the previous sub-aperture FSA schemes, the suggested technique could accommodate the merit of unified signal processing structure regardless of operational modes of KOMPSAT-5. Through the point target simulation, it is verified that the suggested algorithm provides superior performance of azimuth compression over the existing full-aperture processing methods. The experimental results using real data acquired by KOMPSAT-5 are also given to demonstrate the effectiveness of our scheme as well.

본 논문에서는 아리랑 5호의 고해상 SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 영상 생성을 위해 수정된 주파수 스케일링 알고리듬(FSA: Frequency Scaling Algorithm)을 제안한다. 부 개구면(sub-aperture) 처리 과정에서 부정확한 기하 파라미터의 사용이 야기하는 방위압축 성능 저하문제를 개선하기 위해, 정확한 시간-주파수 분석을 통해 전 개구면(full-aperture) 신호처리 알고리듬을 설계한다. 이와 더불어, 아리랑 5호의 이동 집중조사(sliding-spotlight) SAR 신호처리에 적합한 전 개구면 신호처리 알고리듬을 위해 방위 스케일링 함수를 새롭게 제안하였다. 기존의 부 개구면 FSA 방식과 달리, 제안된 방법은 아리랑 5호의 모든 운용 모드에 적용 가능한 일관된 신호처리기 구조를 제공한다는 장점이 있다. 점표적 모의실험을 통해, 제안된 알고리듬이 기존의 전 개구면 데이터 처리 기법들에 비해 우수한 방위압축 성능을 제공함을 확인한다. 또한 아리랑 5호에서 획득된 실 데이터 처리 결과를 제시함으로써 제안된 기법의 유용성을 검증한다.

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