152 research outputs found
Compressed Sensing Applied to Weather Radar
We propose an innovative meteorological radar, which uses reduced number of
spatiotemporal samples without compromising the accuracy of target information.
Our approach extends recent research on compressed sensing (CS) for radar
remote sensing of hard point scatterers to volumetric targets. The previously
published CS-based radar techniques are not applicable for sampling weather
since the precipitation echoes lack sparsity in both range-time and Doppler
domains. We propose an alternative approach by adopting the latest advances in
matrix completion algorithms to demonstrate the sparse sensing of weather
echoes. We use Iowa X-band Polarimetric (XPOL) radar data to test and
illustrate our algorithms.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figrue
A sparsity-driven approach for joint SAR imaging and phase error correction
Image formation algorithms in a variety of applications have explicit or implicit dependence on a mathematical model of the observation process. Inaccuracies in the observation model may cause various degradations and artifacts in the reconstructed images. The application of interest in this paper is synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, which particularly suffers from motion-induced model errors. These types of errors result in phase errors in SAR data which cause defocusing of the reconstructed images. Particularly focusing on imaging of fields that admit a sparse representation, we propose a sparsity-driven method for joint SAR imaging and phase error correction. Phase error correction is performed during the image formation process. The problem is set up as an optimization problem in a nonquadratic regularization-based framework. The method involves an iterative algorithm each iteration of which
consists of consecutive steps of image formation and model error correction. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the approach for various types of phase errors, as well as the improvements it provides over existing techniques for model error compensation in SAR
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