Backprojection Analysis of MIMO SAR

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques have brought significant advances to wireless communications. In recent years, researchers have sought to bring similar advances to radar using MIMO. One specific area that has received relatively little attention is MIMO synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The advantages that MIMO might provide to SAR are not well represented in literature. This paper discusses the motivation for MIMO SAR and derives MIMO signal correlation in order to determine what imaging geometries are required for MIMO SAR

Backprojection Autofocus for Synthetic Aperture Radar

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR), many adverse conditions may cause errors in the raw phase-history data. Autofocus methods are commonly used in SAR to mitigate the effects of these problems. Over the years, many types of autofocus have algorithms have been created, however, each has implicit assumptions restricting their use. The backprojection image formation algorithm places few restrictions on SAR imaging, thus it is desirable to have an autofocus algorithm that is similarly unconstrained. This paper presents a versatile autofocus method that is accordant with backprojection