A butterfly algorithm for synthetic aperture radar
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Demanet, Laurent; Ferrara, Matthew; Maxwell, Nicholas; Poulson, Jack; Ying, Lexing
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It is not currently known if it is possible to accurately form a synthetic aperture radar image from N data points in provable near-linear complexity, where accuracy is defined as the ℓ₂ error between the full O(N²) backprojection image and the approximate image. To bridge this gap, we present a backprojection algorithm with complexity O(log(1/ϵ)N log N), with ϵ the tunable pixelwise accuracy. It is based on the butterfly scheme, which works for vastly more general oscillatory integrals than the discrete Fourier transform. Unlike previous methods this algorithm allows the user to directly choose the amount of acceptable image error based on a well-defined metric. Additionally, the algorithm does not invoke the far-field approximation or place restrictions on the antenna flight path, nor does it impose the frequency-independent beampattern approximation required by time-domain backprojection techniques.
Date issued
2011-05Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of MathematicsJournal
Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering
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SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
Citation
Demanet, Laurent et al. “A Butterfly Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Radar.” 2011. Proc. SPIE 8051, 805105–805105–12. Web. 11 Apr. 2012. © 2011 SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
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0277-786X