Abstract
For the near-field synthetic aperture interferometric radiometer (SAIR), the Fourier transform relationship between the visibility function and the near-field brightness temperature (BT) distribution is not valid. It is a challenging task for near-field SAIR imaging to realize very close-range accurate imaging with a large field of view (FOV). This article presents a new SAIR near-field imaging algorithm based on the angular spectrum theory to realize the passive millimeter-wave (PMMW) imaging, called synthetic-angular-spectrum imaging (SASI) algorithm. This SASI algorithm mainly addresses data samples of a 4-D visibility function acquired from planar arrays. First, we invert 4-D visibility samples into the angular spectrum domain via the Fourier transformation. The obtained angular spectrum data cannot be directly used to estimate the near-field BT distribution. Second, a dedicated phase factor compensation is adopted for handling this problem. The dimension-reducing accumulation is employed to generate the synthetic angular spectrum (SAS) of near-field BT distribution. Finally, we reconstruct the BT image by using the generated SAS data. Simulation and experiment results show that the presented SASI algorithm has the superiority on image reconstruction quality, especially for the off-axis regions, compared with the existing near-field SAIR imaging methods.
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