Ebook: Transionospheric Synthetic Aperture Imaging
- Tags: Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences, Signal Image and Speech Processing, Microwaves RF and Optical Engineering, Fourier Analysis, Classical Electrodynamics, Geophysics/Geodesy
- Series: Applied and Numerical Harmonic Analysis
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This landmark monograph presents the most recent mathematical developments in the analysis of ionospheric distortions of SAR images and offers innovative new strategies for their mitigation. As a prerequisite to addressing these topics, the book also discusses the radar ambiguity theory as it applies to synthetic aperture imaging and the propagation of radio waves through the ionospheric plasma, including the anisotropic and turbulent cases. In addition, it covers a host of related subjects, such as the mathematical modeling of extended radar targets (as opposed to point-wise targets) and the scattering of radio waves off those targets, as well as the theoretical analysis of the start-stop approximation, which is used routinely in SAR signal processing but often without proper justification.
Praise for Transionospheric Synthetic Aperture Imaging:
“I perceive that this text will mark a turning point in the field of synthetic aperture radar research and practice. I believe this text will instigate a new era of more rigorous image formation relieving the research, development and practitioner communities of inconsistent physical assumptions and numerical approaches.” – Richard Albanese, Senior Scientist, Albanese Defense and Energy Development LLC