Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing with MATLAB Algorithms [Hardcover]

Mehrdad Soumekh (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471297062 | ISBN-13: 978-0471297062 | Publication Date: April 13, 1999 | Edition: 1

An up-to-date analysis of the SAR wavefront reconstruction signal theory and its digital implementation With the advent of fast computing and digital information processing techniques, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology has become both more powerful and more accurate. Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing with MATLAB Algorithms addresses these recent developments, providing a complete, up-to-date analysis of SAR and its associated digital signal processing algorithms. This book introduces the wavefront reconstruction signal theory that underlies the best SAR imaging methods and provides clear guidelines to system design, implementation, and applications in diverse areas-from airborne reconnaissance to topographic imaging of ocean floors to surveillance and air traffic control to medical imaging techniques, and numerous others. Enabling professionals in radar signal and image processing to use synthetic aperture technology to its fullest potential, this work:
* Includes M-files to supplement this book that can be retrieved from The MathWorks anonymous FTP server at ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/books/soumekh
* Provides practical examples and results from real SAR, ISAR, and CSAR databases
* Outlines unique properties of the SAR signal that cannot be found in other information processing systems
* Examines spotlight SAR, stripmap SAR, circular SAR, and monopulse SAR modalities
* Discusses classical SAR processing issues such as motion compensation and radar calibration

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An up-to-date analysis of the SAR wavefront reconstruction signal theory and its digital implementation With the advent of fast computing and digital information processing techniques, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology has become both more powerful and more accurate. Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing with MATLAB Algorithms addresses these recent developments, providing a complete, up-to-date analysis of SAR and its associated digital signal processing algorithms. This book introduces the wavefront reconstruction signal theory that underlies the best SAR imaging methods and provides clear guidelines to system design, implementation, and applications in diverse areas-from airborne reconnaissance to topographic imaging of ocean floors to surveillance and air traffic control to medical imaging techniques, and numerous others. Enabling professionals in radar signal and image processing to use synthetic aperture technology to its fullest potential, this work:
* Includes M-files to supplement this book that can be retrieved from The MathWorks anonymous FTP server at ftp://ftp.mathworks.com/pub/books/soumekh
* Provides practical examples and results from real SAR, ISAR, and CSAR databases
* Outlines unique properties of the SAR signal that cannot be found in other information processing systems
* Examines spotlight SAR, stripmap SAR, circular SAR, and monopulse SAR modalities
* Discusses classical SAR processing issues such as motion compensation and radar calibration

About the Author

MEHRDAD SOUMEKH has served as SAR signal processing consultant for various government and industrial laboratories, including the Navy SPAWAR System Center, San Diego, and others. In addition to publishing more than 40 papers and the book Fourier Array Imaging, Dr. Soumekh holds a U.S. patent for his work on the application of wavefront reconstruction theory in SAR imaging.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 648 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 1 edition (April 13, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471297062
• ISBN-13: 978-0471297062
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.4 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #640,160 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars nice applications with heavy computations, December 24, 2004

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This review is from: Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing with MATLAB Algorithms (Hardcover)

Wasn't there once a time, in the depths of the Cold War, when Synthetic Aperture Radar was highly classified? It is still jarring to me to see a book like this, telling all and sundry about the many applications to which it can be directed.

Soumekh takes us through the basic theory. Intensive numerical analysis. Which is why Matlab has been drafted by him to aid us. A nice aid to following the concepts and seeing examples that are non-trivial. The hardest sections of each chapter are on the reconstruction of the data. That is, in the finding of possible sources that gave rise to the observed signals.

You would do well before reading this book to be fully conversant about [Fast] Fourier Transforms and scattering of radiation from objects. Put it this way, if Point Spread Function doesn't mean anything to you, then the book might be of limited use in your situation.

He discusses important geometries, like stripmap and the circular SAR. But just as importantly, there is good mention of applications like aerial reconnaissance or surveying.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best texts on SAR signal processing, October 21, 2005

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Jehanzeb Burki "SAR Researcher" (Georgia USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing with MATLAB Algorithms (Hardcover)

SAR imaging owes a lot to inverse scattering theory, coherence theory, Fourier optics and holography. Luckily, Soumekh comes from an optics background and therefore, is very comfortable with all the optics stuff. He has done an excellent job in presenting different modalities of SAR imaging like stripmap and spotlight and implementing the algorithms in matlab. There is a lot of depth in his book and every time I read it I understand something that I could not understand when I read it last time. I have become a fan of Soumekh. I also attended one of his tutorials based on this book in the SPIE symposium in Orlando Florida.

2.0 out of 5 stars Not that useful, February 22, 2011

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morpheus8100 - See all my reviews

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Could use many more practical examples. All of the reconstruction code included for this book generates incomprehensible images. I wish there was a book that included reconstruction code of actual SAR data with real SAR images so that you can actually tell if you reconstruction algorithm is working and have the ability to evaluate different algorithms on the same data set.