scholarly journals A Novel Imaging Algorithm for High-Resolution Wide-Swath Space-Borne SAR Based on a Spatial-Variant Equivalent Squint Range Model

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 368
Author(s):  
Yanan Guo ◽  
Pengbo Wang ◽  
Jie Chen ◽  
Zhirong Men ◽  
Lei Cui ◽  
...  

High-Resolution Wide-Swath (HRWS) is an important development direction of space-borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The two-dimensional spatial variation of the Doppler parameters is the most significant characteristic of the sliding spotlight space-borne SAR system under the requirements of HRWS. Therefore, the compensation of the two-dimensional spatial variation is the most challenging problem faced in the imaging of HRWS situations. The compensatory approach is then proposed to address this problem in this paper. The spatial distribution of the Doppler parameters for the HRWS space-borne SAR data in the sliding spotlight working mode is firstly analyzed, based on which a Spatial-Variant Equivalent Slant Range Model (SV-ESRM) is put forward to accurately formulate the range history for the distributed target. By introducing an azimuth-varying term, the SV-ESRM can precisely describe the range history for not only central targets but also marginal targets, which is more adaptive to the HRWS space-borne SAR requirements. Based on the SV-ESRM, a Modified Hybrid Correlation Algorithm (MHCA) for HRWS space-borne SAR imaging is derived to focus the full-scene data on one single imaging processing. A Doppler phase perturbation incorporated with the sub-aperture method is firstly performed to eliminate the azimuth variation of the Doppler parameters and remove the Doppler spectrum aliasing. Then, an advanced hybrid correlation is employed to achieve the precise differential Range Cell Migration (RCM) correction and Doppler phase compensation. A range phase perturbation method is also utilized to eliminate the range profile defocusing caused by range-azimuth coupling for marginal targets. Finally, a de-rotation processing is performed to remove the azimuth aliasing and the residual azimuth-variance and obtain the precisely focused SAR image. Simulation shows that the SAR echoes for a 20 km × 20 km scene with a 0.25 m resolution in both the range and azimuth directions could be focused precisely via one single imaging processing, which validates the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.

2021 ◽  
Vol 2083 (3) ◽  
pp. 032048
Author(s):  
Tao He ◽  
Pengbo Wang ◽  
Jixiang Ma ◽  
Xinkai Zhou ◽  
Lingling Xue

Abstract The hyperbolic range equation model (HREM) and equivalent squint range model (ESRM) are applied in traditional chirp scaling algorithm (CSA). However, these range models cannot describe the satellite range history in the high-resolution case accurately because of the long azimuth integration time. The non-negligible phase error caused by this will lead the targets distort. In this paper, a modified chirp scaling algorithm (MCSA) is proposed by introducing a novel high-precision range model. A more accurate signal spectrum is calculated through it. Then, the modified chirp scaling factor, range compression filter, range cell migration correction (RCMC) filter and azimuth compression filter can be derived based on this signal spectrum, and the focused target obtained at last. Finally, the experimental results, to validate the proposed algorithm, adopted by the sliding spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) simulation are provided.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 1669 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qin ◽  
Li ◽  
Tang ◽  
Zeng ◽  
Li ◽  
...  

In view of the azimuth resolution of the helicopter-borne rotating array synthetic aperture radar (RoASAR) depending on the azimuth reconstruction angle and the sector distortion caused by the azimuth Deramp processing, this paper proposes an efficient helicopter-borne RoASAR high-resolution imaging algorithm based on two-dimensional (2-D) chirp-z transform (CZT). First, the high-order Taylor series expansion is performed on the slant range, and the accurate 2-D spectral expression of the point target is obtained by using the method of series reversion (MSR). Based on that, the space-variant characteristics of the range cell migration (RCM) terms are analyzed. After that, the space-variant RCM and the sector distortion effect caused by the azimuth Deramp processing are removed by using efficient 2-D CZT, thereby increasing the azimuth reconstruction angle and improving the azimuth resolution. The proposed algorithm is efficient without the interpolation operation, and it is easy to implement in real-time. Finally, the simulations are provided to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 2729
Author(s):  
Zhen Chen ◽  
Zhimin Zhang ◽  
Yashi Zhou ◽  
Pei Wang ◽  
Jinsong Qiu

Due to the atmospheric turbulence, the motion trajectory of airborne very high resolution (VHR) synthetic aperture radars (SARs) is inevitably affected, which introduces range-variant range cell migration (RCM) and aperture-dependent azimuth phase error (APE). Both types of errors consequently result in defocused images, as residual range- and aperture-dependent motion errors are significant in VHR-SAR images. Nevertheless, little work has been devoted to the range-variant RCM auto-correction and aperture-dependent APE auto-correction. In this paper, a precise motion compensation (MoCo) scheme for airborne VHR-SAR is studied. In the proposed scheme, the motion error is obtained from inertial measurement unit and SAR data, and compensated for with respect to both range and aperture. The proposed MoCo scheme compensates for the motion error without space-invariant approximation. Simulations and experimental data from an airborne 3.6 GHz bandwidth SAR are employed to demonstrate the validity and effectiveness of the proposed MoCo scheme.


Author(s):  
H.A. Cohen ◽  
T.W. Jeng ◽  
W. Chiu

This tutorial will discuss the methodology of low dose electron diffraction and imaging of crystalline biological objects, the problems of data interpretation for two-dimensional projected density maps of glucose embedded protein crystals, the factors to be considered in combining tilt data from three-dimensional crystals, and finally, the prospects of achieving a high resolution three-dimensional density map of a biological crystal. This methodology will be illustrated using two proteins under investigation in our laboratory, the T4 DNA helix destabilizing protein gp32*I and the crotoxin complex crystal.


Author(s):  
K. H. Downing ◽  
S. G. Wolf ◽  
E. Nogales

Microtubules are involved in a host of critical cell activities, many of which involve transport of organelles through the cell. Different sets of microtubules appear to form during the cell cycle for different functions. Knowledge of the structure of tubulin will be necessary in order to understand the various functional mechanisms of microtubule assemble, disassembly, and interaction with other molecules, but tubulin has so far resisted crystallization for x-ray diffraction studies. Fortuitously, in the presence of zinc ions, tubulin also forms two-dimensional, crystalline sheets that are ideally suited for study by electron microscopy. We have refined procedures for forming the sheets and preparing them for EM, and have been able to obtain high-resolution structural data that sheds light on the formation and stabilization of microtubules, and even the interaction with a therapeutic drug.Tubulin sheets had been extensively studied in negative stain, demonstrating that the same protofilament structure was formed in the sheets and microtubules. For high resolution studies, we have found that the sheets embedded in either glucose or tannin diffract to around 3 Å.


2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A226-A226 ◽  
Author(s):  
W LAMMERS ◽  
S DHANASEKARAN ◽  
J SLACK ◽  
B STEPHEN

1985 ◽  
Vol 54 (03) ◽  
pp. 626-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Meyer ◽  
F H Herrmann

SummaryThe platelet proteins of 9 thrombasthenic patients from 7 families were analysed by high resolution two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (HR-2DE) and crossed immunoelectrophoresis (CIE). In 7 patients both glycoproteins (GPs) IIb and Ilia were absent or reduced to roughly the same extent. In two related patients only a trace of GP Ilb-IIIa complex was detected in CIE, but HR-2DE revealed a glycopeptide in the position of GP Ilia in an amount comparable to type II thrombasthenia. This GP Ilia-like component was neither recognized normally by anti-GP Ilb-IIIa antibodies nor labeled by surface iodination. In unreduced-reduced two-dimensional gel electrophoresis two components were observed in the region of GP Ilia. The assumption of a structural variant of GP Ilia in the two related patients is discussed.


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