Azimuth Superresolution of Forward-Looking Radar Imaging Based on Improved Total Variation

The clear contour is required when realize azimuth superresolution of forward-looking radar imaging in many applications. Traditional deconvolution methods achieve the azimuth superresolution but are limited in contour recovery. Although the total variation (TV) method can be used to keep the contour information, it’s sensitive to noise because of derivation. In this paper, we propose an improved total variation (ITV) method to realize azimuth superresolution of forward-looking radar imaging and recover the contour information. Firstly, the TV norm and L2 norm are combined as the penalties under regularization framework. Then the regularization problem is solved by split Bregman algorithm. The proposed ITV method achieves higher azimuth resolution and better contour recovery performance than traditional methods, and the super performance is verified by simulations lastly.

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