Directional Moving Target Indication: A Novel SAR Ambiguity Function for Traffic Monitoring
Marques, P. M.
Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering Vol. 2012, Nº 1, pp. 1 - 8, January, 2012.
ISSN (print): 2090-0147
ISSN (online): 2090-0155
Scimago Journal Ranking: 0,22 (in 2012)
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1155/2012/357034
Abstract
This paper presents and evaluates a novel SAR ambiguity function for traffic monitoring. The novelty consists in introducing the capability to discriminate targets moving in a predefined direction of interest, reducing the contribution of traffic moving in undesired directions. Experimental results show that the modified SAR ambiguity function provides better results than the traditional methodology and may, therefore, be useful for civil traffic monitoring using single-channel synthetic aperture radar data.
