Joint Wideband Interference Suppression and SAR Signal Recovery Based on Sparse Representations

The problem of synthetic aperture radar image recovery in the presence of wideband interference (WBI) is investigated. Delayed versions of a transmitted signal are utilized to construct a dictionary in which a signal of interest (SOI) has a sparse representation. In this letter, WBI is sparsely represented by the time-frequency domain. By utilizing the transform domains, a joint estimation approach is devised to simultaneously perform WBI suppression and SOI recovery within an optimization framework. Based on the separability property in the optimization, an alternating direction method of multipliers-based approach is developed to efficiently obtain a solution. Finally, simulation results are presented to demonstrate the superior performance of the joint estimation algorithm.

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