Three-Dimensional SAR Focusing via Compressive Sensing: The Case Study of Angel Stadium

Recently, a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomograhic focusing method based on compressive sensing was proposed. This focusing method can reduce the required number of measurements and achieve satisfying elevation resolving ability. First, we briefly review this novel focusing method and prove the applicability of compressed sensing (CS) for SAR tomography theoretically using the latest improvement of CS. Then, we apply this focusing method to the 3-D reconstruction of Angel Stadium with Envisat-ASAR data. Both the theoretical analysis and satisfying results of real data processing confirmed the applicability of this SAR tomograhic focusing method.

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