Title
Image Reconstruction for Mirrored Aperture Synthesis Radiometers
Abstract
The mirrored aperture synthesis radiometer (MASR) has been proposed as a promising technique for Earth observation. However, considering the system imperfections, the cosine visibility function and the brightness temperature distribution do not constitute a cosine transform pair. The method to improve the quality of reconstructed brightness temperature images for a practical MASR has not yet been developed. In this article, the complete formulation of cosine visibility functions in a practical MASR is derived to better understand the measurement of a MASR with non-negligible effects of the system imperfections. The array factor of a practical MASR is analyzed. Then, the alias-free field of view (FOV) for a MASR is presented, and an iterative method is proposed to reconstruct the brightness temperature image in the alias-free FOV to reduce the computational burden. The numerical simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can be applied to practical MASRs and that the reconstruction quality is significantly improved by the proposed method. Finally, the H-matrix inversion method is discussed as an alternative reconstruction method for a practical MASR. Compared with the H-matrix inversion method, the proposed method is more convenient for practical applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TGRS.2020.2983334
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Cosine visibility function,image reconstruction,mirrored aperture synthesis radiometer (MASR),symmetric convolution
Journal
58
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
11
0196-2892
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yufang Li1274.90
Qingxia Li246.88
Liangqi Gui324.13
Li Feng4244.12
Haofeng Dou555.32
Zhenyu Lei613.75