Paper Info
Title
Near-Range Multipath Mitigation Methodology for Multistatic SAR Applications Using Matched-Adaptive Filters
Abstract
This article presents a methodology based on matched-adaptive filters, which is used to mitigate the effect of near-range multipath in multistatic SAR systems and transponders. It is challenging to physically construct a bistatic receiver such that the reference signal is not leaked into the received signal, either via coupling in the circuitry or via reflections off objects in the vicinity of the receiver. Due to its much larger amplitude, the reference signal can easily mask near-range targets with its sidelobes. A similar signal degradation is observed in active transponders that are used for calibrating radar systems, when objects exist in their vicinity. In this article, we address these two issues: the coupling between the reference channel and the imaging channel, and the parasitic echoes present in the transponder response. A novel methodology is proposed that is capable of time-domain filtering the undesired components in real time. The novelty consists in combining matched and adaptive filters as a means of boosting performance and resolution estimation, resulting in an extremely accurate multipath elimination method. The proposed methodology is experimentally evaluated and optimized for each of the two aforementioned problems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3165470
IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Synthetic aperture radar, Transponders, Adaptive filters, Couplings, Radar imaging, Spaceborne radar, Imaging, Bistatic and multistatic radar, deconvolution, matched-adaptive filtering, multipath, synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
Journal
15
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1939-1404
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Filip Rosu100.34
Andrei Anghel200.34
Silviu Ciochina300.34
Remus Cacoveanu400.34
Mihai Datcu5893111.62