Radar Imaging and Holography

by A. Pasmurov, J. Zinoviev

Overview

Increasing information content is an important scientific problem in modern observation systems development. Radar, or microwave, imaging, a technique which combines radar techniques with digital or optical information processing, can be used for this purpose. Drawing on their own research, the authors provide an overview of the field and explain why a unified approach based on wave field processing techniques, including holographic and tomographic approaches, is necessary in high resolution radar design. Such techniques use the complex field incident on an observation surface to produce a hologram, which can be used to reconstruct an image of the object or to restore some of its physical parameters. This makes it possible to extract the size, coordinates and radar cross-section of individual scattering centres.

The book focuses on holography and tomography for quasimonochromatic and broadband signals, and gives detailed coverage of the basic physical methods, inverse problems and mathematical principles. It also contains discussion of new areas in imaging radar theory, holographic radar, the questions of estimation and improving radar image quality, and finally various practical applications in the fields of space, airborne radar, air traffic control, medical dia nostics and remote sensing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780863415029
Publisher:	The Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publication date:	12/21/2005
Series:	Radar, Sonar and Navigation
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Alexander Ja. Pasmurov is Executive Director of A.S. Popov Institute of Radio Broadcasting Reception and Acoustics, St Petersburg, Russia.

Julius S. Zinoviev is the Scientific Adviser of A.S. Popov Institute of Radio Broadcasting Reception and Acoustics, St Petersburg, Russia.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Basic concepts of radar imaging
• Chapter 2: Methods of radar imaging
• Chapter 3: Quasi-holographic and holographic radar imaging of point targets on the earth surface
• Chapter 4: Imaging radars and partially coherent targets
• Chapter 5: Radar systems for rotating target imaging (a holographic approach)
• Chapter 6: Radar systems for rotating target imaging (a tomographic approach)
• Chapter 7: Imaging of targets moving in a straight line
• Chapter 8: Phase errors and improvement of image quality
• Chapter 9: Radar imaging application