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Digital beamforming (DBF) is an effective method for improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, further enhancing the SNR in DBF-SAR is limited by the… Click to show full abstract
Digital beamforming (DBF) is an effective method for improving the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. However, further enhancing the SNR in DBF-SAR is limited by the antenna size and the expensive system cost. To address this problem, in this letter we implement a hybrid strip-map/spotlight mode for DBF. By utilizing the proposed processing method, DBF is adapted for hybrid strip-map/spotlight mode data. Furthermore, the additional synthetic aperture acquired from the hybrid strip-map/spotlight mode is employed to implement multilook processing for further enhancing the SNR of DBF-SAR images. The proposed processing method was verified by an airborne X-band 16-channel DBF-SAR system. The results confirmed that a remarkable additional SNR improvement in DBF-SAR images can be obtained using the proposed method without increasing system complexity.
Journal Title: IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
Year Published: 2022
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