Spotlight-Mode Incoherently-Synthetic Aperture Imaging Ladar: Fundamentals

摘要

In this paper, a concept of spotlight-mode incoherently-synthetic aperture imaging ladar (SAIL) is proposed on the basis of computer tomography (CT). This incoherent SAIL has three operations of conventional, inverse and CT spotlight-modes with two sensing techniques of range and Doppler resolutions, and supplies a variety of dimensional transformations for 2-D range- and Doppler-resolved imaging of 2-D objects and for 3-D range-resolved imaging or in the depth compressed 2-D range- and Doppler-resolved imaging of 3-D objects. Due to the simplification in both the construction and the algorithm the difficulties in the signal collection and data processing are importantly relaxed. The incoherent SAIL provides a great potential for applications in the extensive fields. The paper gives the detailed analysis.