Radar range-doppler imaging using joint time-frequency techniques

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Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar coherently processes the return signal from the target in order to construct the image of the target. The conventional methodology used for obtaining the image is the Fourier transform which is not capable of suppressing the Doppler change in the return signal. As a result, Range-Doppler image is degraded. A proper time-frequency transform suppresses the degradation due to time varying Doppler shift. In this thesis, high resolution joint-time frequency transformations that can be used in place of the conventional method are evaluated. Wigner-Ville Distribution, Adaptive Gabor Representation with Coarse-to-Fine search algorithm, and Time-Frequency Distribution Series are examined for the target imaging system. The techniques applied to sample signals compared with each other. The computational and memorial complexity of the methods are evaluated and compared to each other and possible improvements are discussed. The application of these techniques in the target imaging system is also performed and resulting images compared to each other.
Telecommunication (including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television)
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/16623
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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D. Akhanlı, “Radar range-doppler imaging using joint time-frequency techniques,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2007.
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