Moving targets detection and location estimation on airborne SAR images

Detecting and locating moving targets are key issues for radar ground surveillance. Because of its attractive resolution, the use of SAR imaging for this purpose is of prime interest. However, SAR was designed to image non-moving targets, and thus cannot be used as it stands. Some research has been carried to develop simultaneous SAR/STAP processing, because of STAP capacity to detect moving targets. In this paper, a new algorithm for detecting moving targets and for estimating their true location and their velocity is presented. Results obtained on real data are also presented.

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