Multi-Antenna Synthetic Aperture Radar

Wen-Qin Wang, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor in the School of Communication and Information Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu. He is also a visiting scholar at the City University of Hong Kong. From June 2011 to May 2012, Dr. Wang was a visiting scholar at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. His research interests include communication and radar signal processing and novel radar imaging techniques. He has authored more than 100 papers. Dr. Wang is the recipient of several awards, including the Hong Kong Scholar (2012), the New Century Excellent Talents in University (2012), The Outstanding Young Scholars of Sichuan Province (2012), The Young Scholar of Distinction of UESTC (2012), the Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation of Sichuan Province (2011), the Project Investigator Innovation Award from the Wiser Foundation of the Institute of Digital China (2009), and the Excellent Paper Award of the 12th Chinese Annual Radar Technology Conference (2012). He is an editorial board member of two international journals and was the Technical Program Committee Co-chair of the International Conference on Computational Problem Solving, Chengdu, in 2011.

This reference presents a complete perspective on recent developments in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signal processing technology, based on the contemporary use of multiple SAR systems, or a single SAR with array instead of single antenna elements. These techniques improve the generation of 3-D images and make possible additional capabilities, such as images of moving targets. The author draws on his own research to present innovative approaches for microwave remote sensing using multiple-antenna SAR. Coverage includes azimuth, elevation, and multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) multi-antenna SAR.

Introduction. Background Material. Azimuth Multi-Antenna SAR. Elevation-Plane Multi-Antenna SAR. MIMO SAR Waveform Diversity and Design. MIMO SAR in High-Resolution Wide-Swath Imaging. MIMO SAR in Moving Target Indication. Distributed Multi-Antenna SAR Time and Phase Synchronization. Distributed Multi-Antenna SAR Antenna Synchronization. Azimuth-Variant Multi-Antenna SAR Image Formation Processing. Multi-Antenna SAR Three-Dimensional Imaging. Bibliography. Index.