Research Article

Exploiting Chirp Rate Estimation Methods to Improve Image Formation Quality of Synthetic Aperture Radar

Table 1

Parameters of the respective systems.

ParameterValueDescription

 mHeight of platform
50 degreesIncident angle
 m/sPropagation speed
PRF500 HzPulse repetition frequency
 HzCarrier frequency
Wavelength
 secChirp pulse duration
BW HzBaseband bandwidth
Le0.1 mAntenna length in elevation
5 degreesAntenna azimuth beam width
50Platform velocity (m/s)
np1301Number of processed pulses
SNR10Signal-to-noise ratio