Simultaneous Radio Frequency and Wideband Interference Suppression in SAR Signals via Sparsity Exploitation in Time–Frequency Domain

This paper addresses the problem of recovering a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) signal that is corrupted by both radio frequency interference (RFI) and wideband interference (WBI). The time–frequency domain is utilized for both the SAR signal and interference in the form of sparse representations. By doing so, a unified framework that allows one to suppress both the RFI and WBI while recovering the SAR signal can be developed. The resulting framework is an optimization problem that is efficiently solved using a customized alternating direction method of multipliers approach. Finally, simulation results are provided to demonstrate that the performance of the joint estimation algorithm is superior to the performances of other methods in terms of both subjective and objective evaluation standards.

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