SAR Interference Suppression Based on Signal Synthesis from Joint Time-Frequency Distribution

Abstract

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system, the separation and reconstruction of useful signal from Narrow-band interference (NBI) and Wide-band interference (WBI) components is a challenging problem. In this paper, a novel time-varying interference suppression algorithm is proposed based on the signal synthesis from joint time-frequency (TF) distribution. This algorithm makes full use of two TF representations: Wigner distribution (WD) and cross WD (CWD). After cross-terms elimination, these two TF representations are equal or close to the sum of WDs or CWDs of individual signal components, respectively. Based on this property, interferences can be separated and reconstructed by matrix rearrangement and eigenvalue decomposition (EVD). Compared with the traditional SSM (TSSM), the proposed algorithm has two advantages: 1) it is more accurate, since it avoids the approximate interpolation to WD; 2) it is quite time-saving, due to its matrix obtained by fast Fourier transform (FFT) and matrix rearrangement instead of the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in terms of accuracy and computational complexity.