RFI Removal from SAR Imagery via Sparse Parametric Estimation of LFM Interferences
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| author | Yang, Dehui Xi, Feng Cao, Qihao Yang, Huizhang |
| author_facet | Yang, Dehui Xi, Feng Cao, Qihao Yang, Huizhang |
| contents | One of the challenges in spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is modeling and mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI) artifacts in SAR imagery. Linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals have been commonly used for characterizing the radar interferences in SAR. In this letter, we propose a new signal model that approximates RFI as a mixture of multiple LFM components in the focused SAR image domain. The azimuth and range frequency modulation (FM) rates for each LFM component are estimated effectively using a sparse parametric representation of LFM interferences with a discretized LFM dictionary. This approach is then tested within the recently developed RFI suppression framework using a 2-D SPECtral ANalysis (2-D SPECAN) algorithm through LFM focusing and notch filtering in the spectral domain [1]. Experimental studies on Sentinel-1 single-look complex images demonstrate that the proposed LFM model and sparse parametric estimation scheme outperforms existing RFI removal methods. |
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| spellingShingle | RFI Removal from SAR Imagery via Sparse Parametric Estimation of LFM Interferences Yang, Dehui Xi, Feng Cao, Qihao Yang, Huizhang Image and Video Processing One of the challenges in spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is modeling and mitigating radio frequency interference (RFI) artifacts in SAR imagery. Linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals have been commonly used for characterizing the radar interferences in SAR. In this letter, we propose a new signal model that approximates RFI as a mixture of multiple LFM components in the focused SAR image domain. The azimuth and range frequency modulation (FM) rates for each LFM component are estimated effectively using a sparse parametric representation of LFM interferences with a discretized LFM dictionary. This approach is then tested within the recently developed RFI suppression framework using a 2-D SPECtral ANalysis (2-D SPECAN) algorithm through LFM focusing and notch filtering in the spectral domain [1]. Experimental studies on Sentinel-1 single-look complex images demonstrate that the proposed LFM model and sparse parametric estimation scheme outperforms existing RFI removal methods. |
| title | RFI Removal from SAR Imagery via Sparse Parametric Estimation of LFM Interferences |
| topic | Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18809 |