Title
Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation for Synthetic Aperture Radar Based on the Time-Frequency Constraint Joint Low-Rank and Sparsity Properties
Abstract
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is susceptible to radio frequency interference (RFI), which becomes especially commonplace in the increasingly complex electromagnetic environments. RFI severely detracts from SAR imaging quality, which hinders image interpretation. Therefore, some RFI mitigation algorithms have been introduced based on the partial features of RFI, but the RFI reconstruction models in these algorithms are rough and can be improved further. This paper proposes two algorithms for accurately modeling the structural properties of RFI and target echo signal (TES). Firstly, an RFI mitigation algorithm joining the low-rank characteristic and dual-sparsity property (LRDS) is proposed. In this algorithm, RFI is treated as a low-rank and sparse matrix, and the sparse matrix assumption is made for TES in the time-frequency (TF) domain. Compared with the traditional low-rank and sparse models, it can achieve better RFI mitigation performance with less signal loss and accelerated algorithm convergence. Secondly, the other RFI mitigation algorithm, named as TFC-LRS, is proposed to further reduce the signal loss. The TF constraint concept, in lieu of the special sparsity, is introduced in this algorithm to describe the structural distribution of RFI because of its aggregation characteristic in the TF spectrogram. Finally, the effectiveness, superiority, and robustness of the proposed algorithms are verified by RFI mitigation experiments on the simulated and measured SAR datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/rs14030775
REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
synthetic aperture radar, radio frequency interference, interference mitigation, low-rank approximation, sparse recovery
Journal
14
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
3
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi Ding100.34
Weiwei Fan200.34
Zijing Zhang302.03
Feng Zhou4289.72
Bingbing Lu500.34