Title
Efficient Parameter Estimation for Sparse SAR Imaging Based on Complex Image and Azimuth-Range Decouple.
Abstract
Sparse signal processing theory has been applied to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. In compressive sensing (CS), the sparsity is usually considered as a known parameter. However, it is unknown practically. For many functions of CS, we need to know this parameter. Therefore, the estimation of sparsity is crucial for sparse SAR imaging. The sparsity is determined by the size of regularization parameter. Several methods have been presented for automatically estimating the regularization parameter, and have been applied to sparse SAR imaging. However, these methods are deduced based on an observation matrix, which will entail huge computational and memory costs. In this paper, to enhance the computational efficiency, an efficient adaptive parameter estimation method for sparse SAR imaging is proposed. The complex image-based sparse SAR imaging method only considers the threshold operation of the complex image, which can reduce the computational costs significantly. By utilizing this feature, the parameter is pre-estimated based on a complex image. In order to estimate the sparsity accurately, adaptive parameter estimation is then processed in the raw data domain, combining with the pre-estimated parameter and azimuth-range decouple operators. The proposed method can reduce the computational complexity from a quadratic square order to a linear logarithm order, which can be used in the large-scale scene. Simulated and Gaofen-3 SAR data processing results demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.3390/s19204549
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
sparse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging,adaptive parameter estimation,compressive sensing (CS),L-1 regularization,azimuth-range decouple,Gaofen-3 data
Signal processing,Data processing,Synthetic aperture radar,Algorithm,Electronic engineering,Regularization (mathematics),Estimation theory,Engineering,Logarithm,Compressed sensing,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
19
20
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingqian Liu100.34
bingchen zhang211017.19
Zhongqiu Xu300.34
Yirong Wu439646.55