An Accurate SAR Imaging Method Based on Generalized Minimax Concave Penalty

摘要

Sparse signal processing has been applied in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging successfully. As a typical sparse reconstruction model, L1 regularization often underestimates the intensities of the targets. The estimated radar cross section (RCS) is related to the pixel intensity. The underestimation will cause the errors in RCS estimations. In this paper, we present a SAR imaging method based on generalized minimax convex (GMC) penalty, which can avoid the pixel intensity underestimation. The performance of the proposed method is verified using simulations and real data.