1 Range Resolving Techniques. - 1. 1 Introduction to Imaging Radars. - 1. 2 Range Resolution in Imaging Radars Using CW Pulses. - 1. 3 Range Resolution Using Dispersed Waveforms. - References. - 2 A Tomographic Foundation for Spotlight-Mode Sar Imaging. - 2. 1 The Cross-Range Resolution Problem. - 2. 2 The Concept of Aperture Synthesis as a Solution to the Cross-Range Resolvability Problem. - 2. 3 Mathematics of Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT). - 2. 4 A Three-Dimensional Tomographic Framework for Spotlight-Mode SAR. - 2. 5 The Complex Reconstructed Spotlight-Mode SAR Image. - 2. 6 Limitations of the Tomographic Paradigm. - 2. 7 Tomographic Development of Bistatic SAR. - References. - 3 Aspects of Spotlight-Mode Image Formation. - 3. 1 Introduction. - 3. 2 Image Resolution and Area Coverage. - 3. 3 Holographic Properties and Multi-look Concepts. - 3. 4 Properties of Non-polar-formatted Data. - 3. 5 Polar-to-Rectangular Resampling. - 3. 6 Fourier Transforms Aperture Weighting and Oversampling. - 3. 7 Slant-Plane Image Formation and Image Properties. - 3. 8 Out-of-Plane Correction and Projection Effects. - 3. 9 Ground-Plane Image Formation and Image Properties. - 3. 10 Spatial Frequencies Image Scale Factors Image Dimensions Oversampling and Resolution Summarized. - 3. 11 A Typical Image-Formation Procedure. - References. - 4 Phase Errors and Autofocus in Sar Imagery. - 4. 1 Introduction. - 4. 2 Mathematical Model for Demodulation Inaccuracies. - 4. 3 Phase Errors Induced Across the Aperture. - 4. 4 Phase Correction using Conventional Approaches. - 4. 5 Phase Correction Using PGA. - References. - 5 Interferometric Processing of Sar Data. - 5. 1 Introduction. - 5. 2 Review of Theoretical Fundamentals. - 5. 3 Interferometric Pair Processing: Registration. - 5. 4 Interferometric Terrain Mapping. - 5. 5 Interferometric Change Detection. - 5. 6 Interferometric Terrain Motion Mapping. - 5. 7 Stereoscopic Terrain Mapping. - References. - A Rotation Property of Fourier Transforms. - B Phase Analysis for Limitations of the Tomographic Paradigm. - B. l The Phase of the Return from a Point Target. - B. 2 The Range Curvature Effect. - B. 3 Deramp Residual Phase Error. - C Development of a Practical Image Formation Geometry. - C. l Introduction. - C. 2 Imaging Geometry and Coordinate System Development. - C. 5 Computing the Shadow Angle (?). - C. 7 Computing the Fractional Range and Cross-range Layover Components in the Ground Plane. - C. 8 Computing the Slant-Plane Image Shear Angle (?). - C. 9 Summary. - D Development of a Synthetic Target Generator. - D. l Introduction. - D. 2 Synthetic Target Generator. - E Some Simple Synthetic Target Examples. - E. l Introduction. - E. 2 Examples of Synthetically Generated Phase Histories and Imagery. - F ML Phase Estimation and the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound. - F. l Derivation of the Maximum-Likelihood Phase Estimator. - F. 2 Estimator Bias. - F. 3 The Cramer-Rao Lower Bound. Language: English