Autofocus for Synthetic Aperture Radar

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dc.contributor.advisorBorcea, Liliana
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSymes, William W.
dc.contributor.committeeMemberYin, Wotao
dc.creatorGallardo Palacios, Ricardo
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-05T15:50:06Z
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-05T15:50:09Z
dc.date.available2013-06-05T15:50:06Z
dc.date.available2013-06-05T15:50:09Z
dc.date.created2012-12
dc.date.issued2013-06-05
dc.date.submittedDecember 2012
dc.date.updated2013-06-05T15:50:09Z
dc.description.abstractIn this thesis, I compare the performance of three different autofocus techniques for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The focusing is done by estimating phase errors in SAR data. The first one, the Phase Gradient Autofocus, is the most popular in the industry, it has been around for more than 20 years and it relies on the redundancy of the phase error in the SAR images. The second one, the Entropy-based minimization, uses measurements of image sharpness to focus the images and it has been available for about 10 years. The last, the Phase-space method, uses the Wigner transform and the ambiguity function of the SAR data to estimate the phase perturbations and it was recently introduced. Additionally, I develop a criteria for filtering the data for the cases in which the Phase-space method does not capture the entirety of the error.
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dc.identifier.citationGallardo Palacios, Ricardo. "Autofocus for Synthetic Aperture Radar." (2013) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71297">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/71297</a>.
dc.identifier.slug123456789/ETD-2012-12-295
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/71297
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectSAR
dc.subjectAutofocus
dc.titleAutofocus for Synthetic Aperture Radar
dc.typeThesis
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thesis.degree.departmentComputational and Applied Mathematics
thesis.degree.disciplineEngineering
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts
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