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Abstract
一种宽幅全极化星载SAR的极化回波分离方法,宽幅全极化星载SAR是指在一个脉冲重复间隔内依次发射H与V极化脉冲,而后利用双极化通道接收回波,从而获得四种极化分量的新系统。这一新型全极化SAR可不增加系统重频,因此能够获得更宽的测绘带。然而,为获得这一性能提升,就必须首先将不同极化脉冲的回波分离开。本方法在传统线性约束最小方差(LCMV)算法的基础之上进行改进:对传统算法进行拆分,并在拆分开的两步骤间引入了FIR滤波,再对第二步做相应的改进调整。根据本方法来实现极化回波分离,一方面能够使得不同极化回波的分离隔离度满足应用需求,另一方面也无需过度增加星上运算量,降低了工程实现难度。
A polarization-echo separation method for wide-width full-polarization spaceborne SAR. Wide-width full-polarization spaceborne SAR refers to transmitting H and V polarization pulses sequentially within a pulse repetition interval, and then using dual polarization channels to receive echo, thereby obtaining a new system of four polarization components. This new type of fully polarized SAR does not increase the system repetition frequency, so a wider survey swath can be obtained. However, to obtain this performance improvement, the echoes of differently polarized pulses must first be separated. This method is improved on the basis of the traditional linear constrained minimum variance (LCMV) algorithm: the traditional algorithm is split, and FIR filtering is introduced between the two split steps, and then the second step is improved and adjusted accordingly . According to the method to achieve polarization echo separation, on the one hand, the separation and isolation of different polarization echoes can meet the application requirements;
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技术领域technical field
本发明针对新体制宽幅全极化星载SAR系统的关键性问题—混叠回波的分离处理,提供了一种新型极化回波分离方法,主要涉及到微波遥感以及信号处理两大技术领域。The present invention provides a novel polarization echo separation method for the key problem of the wide-range full-polarization space-borne SAR system in the new system—separation and processing of aliasing echoes, which mainly involves two technologies of microwave remote sensing and signal processing field.
背景技术Background technique
通过发射不同的极化脉冲与双极化通道接收回波,全极化星载SAR能够获得在不同极化组合下每个分辨单元的散射信息,这有助于进一步理解目标的后向散射特性。因此,相比于单极化SAR,全极化SAR能够提供更为丰富的目标信息,有助于确定目标散射机理、提升对目标的检测识别分类能力、以及对接收到的杂波干扰的进行抑制。由于全极化技术的引入,SAR的应用领域被极大地拓宽。通过全极化SAR图像,我们可以提取出更多的信息,这些信息在农林监测、水文地理、城市规划、灾害评估以及军事侦察等领域具有无法估量的作用。By transmitting different polarization pulses and receiving echoes through dual polarization channels, fully polarized spaceborne SAR can obtain the scattering information of each resolution unit under different polarization combinations, which helps to further understand the backscattering characteristics of the target . Therefore, compared with single-polarization SAR, full-polarization SAR can provide richer target information, which is helpful to determine the target scattering mechanism, improve the ability to detect, identify and classify targets, and to detect received clutter interference. inhibition. Due to the introduction of full polarization technology, the application field of SAR has been greatly expanded. Through full-polarization SAR images, we can extract more information, which plays an inestimable role in fields such as agricultural and forestry monitoring, hydrogeography, urban planning, disaster assessment, and military reconnaissance.
现阶段在轨运行的一系列全极化星载SAR系统(如德宇航的TerraSAR-X,加拿大航天局的RADARSAT-2等)都是采用交替发射H/V极化脉冲与双极化通道接收回波相结合的方式来实现全极化对地观测成像的,两种极化脉冲的发射间隔为脉冲重复间隔(PRI,Pulserepetitioninterval),如附图1(a)所示。这一极化方式需将系统PRF提升一倍以避免方位模糊的恶化,从而导致成像幅宽减少一半,降低了重访观测频率,这也是目前全极化星载SAR的最大弊端。A series of full-polarization spaceborne SAR systems currently in orbit (such as TerraSAR-X of De Aerospace, RADARSAT-2 of the Canadian Space Agency, etc.) use alternate transmission of H/V polarization pulses and dual-polarization channel reception The combination of echoes is used to realize full-polarization earth observation imaging, and the transmission interval of the two polarization pulses is the pulse repetition interval (PRI, Pulse repetition interval), as shown in Figure 1(a). This polarization method needs to double the PRF of the system to avoid the deterioration of azimuth ambiguity, resulting in a half of the imaging width and a reduction in the frequency of revisit observations, which is also the biggest drawback of the current fully polarized spaceborne SAR.
为解决以上问题,德宇航DLR于2008年提出了一种的新型全极化星载SAR体制,这一体制在一次脉冲发射期间会连续发射两种极化脉冲(附图1(b)所示与附图2所示),在接收端再通过双极化通道接收,就能够理论上获得全部四种极化分量,不必再提高系统PRF来实现全极化观测。在这一体制提出后,国内外对其理论可行性一致认可,但同时认为这一体制工程实现的最大障碍是不同极化脉冲回波在时间上的混叠。若不能将它们有效分离开,则无法提取各个极化分量。In order to solve the above problems, German Aerospace DLR proposed a new full-polarization spaceborne SAR system in 2008. This system will continuously transmit two kinds of polarization pulses during a pulse transmission (shown in Figure 1(b) As shown in Figure 2), at the receiving end and then received through the dual polarization channel, all four polarization components can be theoretically obtained, and there is no need to increase the system PRF to achieve full polarization observation. After this system was put forward, the theoretical feasibility of it was unanimously recognized at home and abroad, but at the same time, it was believed that the biggest obstacle to the realization of this system engineering was the temporal aliasing of different polarization pulse echoes. If they cannot be effectively separated, the individual polarization components cannot be extracted.
针对回波分离这一问题,DLR在近年来已无公开文献或者专利发表,因此无法通过公开渠道知晓该机构在这一方面的工作进展情况。在国内方面,中科院电子所的齐维孔在刊物《中国科学E刊》上发表了一篇名为“一种新的多极化星载SAR工作方式研究”的文章来研究并解决这一问题,文中所述方法需要在星上完成距离压缩处理,而后再逐个距离门地进行零陷抑制处理。由于要在星上完成距离压缩,因此极大地增加了星上的运算量,对星上资源需求非常高,很难工程化实现。总之,截止到目前,还未在公开文献上看到有针对上述问题的工程化可实现方案刊出。Regarding the issue of echo separation, DLR has not published any public documents or patents in recent years, so it is impossible to know the progress of the agency's work in this area through public channels. On the domestic front, Qi Weikong of the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences published an article titled "Research on a New Multi-polarization Spaceborne SAR Working Method" in the journal "Chinese Science E" to study and solve this problem , the method described in this paper needs to complete the range compression processing on the satellite, and then carry out the null trap suppression processing one by one. Since the distance compression needs to be completed on the star, the calculation amount on the star is greatly increased, and the demand on the resources on the star is very high, which is difficult to realize in engineering. In short, up to now, no engineering-realizable solutions for the above-mentioned problems have been published in the public literature.
发明内容Contents of the invention
本发明的技术解决问题是:克服现有技术的不足,针对新体制全极化星载SAR的回波混叠问题,本发明提出了一种新型俯仰向数字波束形成方法。这一方法通过对传统零点指向处理所采用的线性约束最小方差(LinearConstraintMinimumVariance,LCMV)算法进行改进,在俯仰向上形成两个数字接收波束实现空域滤波(附图3),在回波接收期间就完成了对两种极化回波的分离。The technical problem of the present invention is: to overcome the deficiencies of the prior art, and aiming at the echo aliasing problem of the new system full-polarization spaceborne SAR, the present invention proposes a new type of elevation digital beamforming method. This method improves the Linear Constraint Minimum Variance (LCMV) algorithm used in traditional zero-pointing processing, and forms two digital receiving beams in the elevation direction to realize spatial filtering (see Figure 3), which is completed during echo reception. The separation of the two polarization echoes is achieved.
本发明的技术解决方案为:Technical solution of the present invention is:
一种宽幅全极化星载SAR的极化回波分离方法,所述极化回波为一个脉冲重复间隔内依次发射的H极化脉冲与V极化脉冲相应的回波,且这两种回波在回波接收窗内从不同的视角位置同时返回至接收机,从而在时域上混叠;所述分离方法的步骤如下:A polarization echo separation method for wide-width full-polarization spaceborne SAR, the polarization echo is the echo corresponding to the H polarization pulse and the V polarization pulse transmitted sequentially within a pulse repetition interval, and the two The echoes return to the receiver simultaneously from different viewing angle positions in the echo receiving window, thereby aliasing in the time domain; the steps of the separation method are as follows:
(1)对平面相控阵天线俯仰向上各个接收通道内所接收到的回波依次进行低噪声放大、下变频以及ADC采样处理,将原始回波对应的高频模拟信号变为低频数字信号;(1) Perform low-noise amplification, down-conversion and ADC sampling processing on the echoes received in each receiving channel of the planar phased array antenna in turn, and convert the high-frequency analog signal corresponding to the original echo into a low-frequency digital signal;
(2)利用所述H极化脉冲与V极化脉冲的实时波达矢量v1与v2分别对步骤(1)所获得的低频数字信号进行加权处理,其中俯仰向第k个接收通道的低频数字信号分别被v1与v2的第k个元素w1k与w2k加权,k为正整数,且k∈[1,Ne],Ne为接收通道的个数;(2) Use the real-time arrival vectors v1 and v2 of the H-polarized pulse and V-polarized pulse to weight the low-frequency digital signal obtained in step ( 1 ) respectively, where the pitch is towards the k-th receiving channel The low-frequency digital signal is weighted by the kth elements w 1k and w 2k of v 1 and v 2 respectively, k is a positive integer, and k∈[1,N e ], N e is the number of receiving channels;
(3)将俯仰向各个接收通道中两路经不同权值v1与v2加权的信号进行相应的FIR滤波处理;(3) Perform corresponding FIR filtering processing on the two signals weighted by different weights v 1 and v 2 in each receiving channel in the pitch direction;
(4)各个接收通道输出的经过加权矢量v1以及FIR滤波器处理的信号矢量进行累加合成输出,生成一路信号;各个接收通道输出的经过加权矢量v2以及FIR滤波器处理的信号矢量进行累加合成输出,生成另一路信号;(4) The signal vectors processed by the weighted vector v 1 and the FIR filter output by each receiving channel are accumulated and synthesized to output, and a signal is generated; the signal vectors processed by the weighted vector v 2 and the FIR filter output by each receiving channel are accumulated Composite output to generate another signal;
(5)通过第一组加权矢量对步骤(4)得到的两路信号进行加权合成输出,得到在一个完整的脉冲发射期间第一个发射的H极化脉冲的回波信号;(5) Through the first set of weighted vectors The two-way signals obtained in step (4) are weighted and synthesized to obtain the echo signal of the first H-polarized pulse transmitted during a complete pulse transmission period;
(6)通过第二组加权矢量对步骤(4)得到的两路信号进行加权合成输出,得到在一个完整的脉冲发射期间第二个发射的V极化脉冲的回波信号。(6) Through the second set of weighted vectors The two signals obtained in step (4) are weighted and synthesized to obtain the echo signal of the second transmitted V-polarized pulse during a complete pulse transmission period.
所述步骤(2)中的两个依次发射的所述H极化脉冲与V极化脉冲的波达矢量v1与v2是时变的,其表达式分别为与波达矢量中的第k个元素可表示为
其中λ为波长、d为俯仰向接收通道间隔、θi(τ)为H极化脉冲(i=1)或者V极化脉冲(i=2)的回波在τ时刻对应的波达角,其计算方式按如下步骤进行:Where λ is the wavelength, d is the receiving channel spacing in the pitch direction, θ i (τ) is the angle of arrival corresponding to the echo of the H-polarized pulse (i=1) or V-polarized pulse (i=2) at time τ, Its calculation method is carried out as follows:
(a)通过公式R(τ)=c·τ/2计算在τ时刻H极化脉冲的回波所对应的瞬时斜距R;其中c为光速;V极化脉冲回波的斜距可表示为R'(τ)=c·(τ-T)/2,其中T为两个极化脉冲间的发射间隔;(a) Calculate the instantaneous slant distance R corresponding to the echo of the H-polarized pulse at time τ by the formula R(τ)=c·τ/2; where c is the speed of light; the slant distance of the echo of the V-polarized pulse can be expressed as is R'(τ)=c·(τ-T)/2, where T is the emission interval between two polarized pulses;
(b)根据步骤(a)中计算得到的瞬时斜距R(τ),根据公式求解出H极化脉冲回波的瞬时星下点视角α(τ),其中Re为地球半径,H为卫星轨道高度;(b) According to the instantaneous slope distance R(τ) calculated in step (a), according to the formula Solve the instantaneous sub-satellite point angle α(τ) of the H-polarized pulse echo, where R e is the radius of the earth, and H is the satellite orbit height;
(c)根据天线俯仰向法向星下点视角αc以及步骤(b)中计算得到的瞬时回波星下点视角α(τ),利用公式θ(τ)=α(τ)-αc求得回波相应的波达角。(c) According to the angle of view of the sub-satellite point α c in the normal direction of the antenna and the angle of view of the instantaneous echo sub-satellite point α(τ) calculated in step (b), use the formula θ(τ)=α(τ)-α c Obtain the corresponding angle of arrival of the echo.
所述步骤(3)中的FIR滤波器为一8阶时延滤波器,俯仰向第k个接收通道相应的时延量为其中Kr为发射脉冲的线性调频率,为在脉冲经过场景中心时刻τc时波达角θ(τ)对距离向快时间τ的一阶偏导。The FIR filter in the step (3) is an 8th-order time-delay filter, and the time delay corresponding to the kth receiving channel in the pitch direction is where K r is the chirp frequency of the transmitted pulse, is the first-order partial derivative of the angle of arrival θ(τ) with respect to the range fast time τ when the pulse passes through the scene center time τc.
所述步骤(5)与(6)中的加权矢量分别为矩阵Ne[(V')HV']-1的第一行与第二行,其中,(V')HV'由以下公式来获得:The weighted vectors in the steps (5) and (6) are respectively the first row and the second row of the matrix N e [(V') H V'] -1 , where (V') H V' is obtained by the following formula:
本发明与现有技术相比的有益效果是:The beneficial effect of the present invention compared with prior art is:
(1)本发明与传统零点指向处理相比,考虑到了脉冲延展性对分离性能的影响。由于子脉冲都具有一定的脉宽,所有在某一特定时刻其在地面都会覆盖一定的区域,而传统零点指向法只能对所覆盖区域的中心位置实现最大增益接收(信号子脉冲)/最深零陷抑制(干扰子脉冲),而对其它区域无法实现与中心位置相同的增益接收,因此造成隔离度较差,而本发明能够将隔离度提升约10dB,使得两种极化回波在整个接收窗内的隔离度大于25dB,满足了绝大部分的极化SAR应用需求。(1) Compared with the traditional zero-point pointing treatment, the present invention takes into account the influence of pulse ductility on separation performance. Since the sub-pulse has a certain pulse width, it will cover a certain area on the ground at a certain moment, while the traditional zero-point pointing method can only achieve the maximum gain reception (signal sub-pulse)/deepest in the center of the covered area. Null suppression (interfering sub-pulse), but the same gain reception as the central position cannot be realized for other areas, so the isolation is poor, and the present invention can improve the isolation by about 10dB, so that two kinds of polarization echoes are in the whole The isolation within the receiving window is greater than 25dB, which meets the requirements of most polarimetric SAR applications.
(2)本发明将传统零点指向的一步加权合成处理分拆成两步,并在两步加权处理间引入了8阶FIR滤波(附图4所示)。这与先进行距离压缩、再逐个距离门做零点指向处理的回波分离流程相比,极大地降低了星上的系统结构及相应的处理运算量,有利于工程化实现。(2) The present invention splits the one-step weighted synthesis processing of the traditional zero-point point into two steps, and introduces an 8-order FIR filter between the two-step weighted processing (shown in Figure 4). Compared with the echo separation process that performs range compression first and then performs zero-pointing processing one by one, this greatly reduces the system structure and corresponding processing calculations on the star, which is conducive to engineering realization.
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图1为传统体制与新体制全极化星载SAR的方案比较,其中图1(a)为传统体制的全极化方案,图1(b)为新体制全极化方案;Figure 1 is a comparison between the traditional system and the new system full-polarization spaceborne SAR scheme, where Figure 1(a) is the full-polarization scheme of the traditional system, and Figure 1(b) is the full-polarization scheme of the new system;
图2为新体制宽幅全极化星载SAR系统的脉冲发射时序图;Figure 2 is the pulse emission timing diagram of the wide-field full-polarization spaceborne SAR system of the new system;
图3为俯仰向DBF形成的两个数字波束来分离不同位置处的极化回波;Figure 3 shows two digital beams formed by the DBF in elevation to separate polarization echoes at different positions;
图4为俯仰向第k个子孔径中相应的8阶FIR滤波器处理框图;Fig. 4 is the corresponding 8-order FIR filter processing block diagram in pitching to the kth sub-aperture;
图5为基于LCMV算法的传统零点指向被分成两步的系统框图;Figure 5 is a system block diagram in which the traditional zero-point pointing based on the LCMV algorithm is divided into two steps;
图6为本发明极化回波分离方法的示意图。Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram of the polarization echo separation method of the present invention.
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下面结合附图对本发明的创新点以及具体实施方式进行详细说明。The innovations and specific implementation methods of the present invention will be described in detail below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
由于新体制宽幅全极化星载SAR的两种极化子脉冲(H与V两种极化脉冲)是依次发射的,因此在回波接收窗的任意时刻,H与V两种极化脉冲的回波分别会从不同的视角返回至接收机,且含有不同区域的地表信息(附图3所示)。根据这一差异,我们可利用数字波束形成(DBF)技术在接收端形成两个实时扫描的接收波束分别接收H与V极化脉冲的回波,且每个波束具有以下两方面的特点:Since the two kinds of polariton pulses (H and V polarization pulses) of the new wide-width full-polarization spaceborne SAR are transmitted sequentially, at any moment in the echo receiving window, the H and V polarization The echoes of the pulse will return to the receiver from different viewing angles, and contain surface information in different areas (shown in Figure 3). According to this difference, we can use digital beamforming (DBF) technology to form two real-time scanning receiving beams at the receiving end to receive the echoes of H and V polarized pulses respectively, and each beam has the following two characteristics:
1、最大增益接收相应子脉冲的回波1. Maximum gain to receive the echo of the corresponding sub-pulse
2、最深零陷抑制干扰子脉冲的回波2. The deepest null suppresses the echo of the interfering sub-pulse
在各种波束形成算法中,线性约束最小方差(LCMV)法能够实现以上两Among various beamforming algorithms, the linear constrained minimum variance (LCMV) method can achieve the above two
方面性能。这一算法由以下方程组决定:aspect performance. This algorithm is governed by the following set of equations:
其中i,j∈[1,2](当下标i,j=1表示相关参数为H极化脉冲的相关参数,i,j=2表示参数为V极化脉冲的相关参数),符号(·)H表示共轭转置,wi表示形成第i个子波束的加权矢量,Ne表示俯仰向的接收子孔径数(接收通道数量),vi和vj分别表示第i个和第j个子脉冲所对应的导向矢量(steeringvecotr),它们分别可表示为Where i,j∈[1,2] (when the subscript i,j=1 indicates that the relevant parameter is the relevant parameter of the H polarization pulse, i,j=2 indicates that the parameter is the relevant parameter of the V polarization pulse), the symbol (· ) H represents the conjugate transpose, w i represents the weight vector forming the i-th sub-beam, N e represents the number of receiving sub-apertures (number of receiving channels) in the elevation direction, v i and v j represent the i-th and j-th sub-beams respectively The steering vector corresponding to the pulse (steeringvecotr), they can be expressed as
和and
其中(·)T为转置符,d为俯仰向子孔径间隔,λ为波长,θi与θj分别表示第i个与第j个子脉冲回波相对应的俯仰向法向偏移角(off-boresightangle),即波达角。由于子脉冲是在地面行进的,因此导向矢量vi和vj是时变的,这也决定了相应的加权矢量wi与wj是时变的。Where (·) T is the transposition symbol, d is the sub-aperture interval in the pitch direction, λ is the wavelength, θ i and θ j respectively represent the normal offset angle in the pitch direction corresponding to the i-th sub-pulse echo ( off-boresight angle), that is, the wave angle. Since the sub-pulse travels on the ground, the steering vectors v i and v j are time-varying, which also determines that the corresponding weighting vectors w i and w j are time-varying.
基于式(2.1)与式(2.2),定义接收阵列多重矩阵V为Based on formula (2.1) and formula (2.2), the multiple matrix V of the receiving array is defined as
V=[v1,v2](3)V=[v 1 ,v 2 ](3)
由此,对波束形成加权矢量wi的限制条件(1.1)与(1.2)可表示成矩阵方程Therefore, the constraints (1.1) and (1.2) on the beamforming weight vector w i can be expressed as a matrix equation
其中ei为一2×2单位矩阵的第i列。通过解以上方程组,我们可得出形成第i个接收子波束的加权矢量wi为Where e i is the ith column of a 2×2 identity matrix. By solving the above equations, we can obtain the weight vector w i for forming the i-th receive sub-beam as
其中Stn为接收机噪声的协方差矩阵(spectralmatrix)。这一噪声可建模成白噪声且功率为则Stn可写成Among them, S tn is the covariance matrix (spectralmatrix) of receiver noise. This noise can be modeled as white noise with power Then S tn can be written as
其中为一Ne维的单位矩阵。将式(6)带入到式(5),则可简化为in is a N e -dimensional identity matrix. Put formula (6) into formula (5), then can be simplified to
然而,由于脉冲有一定的脉宽,因此其在地面上有一定的延展性,利用式(7)所表示的加权矢量形成的第i个接收子波束只能在某一位置形成最大增益/最深零陷,其余位置无法获得与中心位置相同的接收增益,这会在后期造成分离度不够的问题。However, since the pulse has a certain pulse width, it has certain ductility on the ground, and the i-th receive sub-beam formed by the weight vector represented by equation (7) can only form the maximum gain/deepest beam at a certain position Zero-sinking, the remaining positions cannot obtain the same receiving gain as the center position, which will cause insufficient separation in the later stage.
针对这一问题,我们将对传统零点指向处理做以下三方面的创新性改进,以取得更优的分离效果:In response to this problem, we will make the following three innovative improvements to the traditional zero-point processing to achieve better separation effects:
(1)将式(7)所表示的传统LCMV加权合成处理分拆成两步。第一步由矩阵VH所包含的两行矢量分别对俯仰向阵列接收的原始信号加权合成输出;第二步是利用行矢量对第一步所输出的两路信号进行加权合成。附图5给出了将传统LCMV加权处理拆分成两步的示意图。(1) The traditional LCMV weighted synthesis process represented by formula (7) is divided into two steps. The first step is to use the two row vectors contained in the matrix VH to weight and synthesize the original signal received by the pitch array; the second step is to use the row vector Weighted synthesis is performed on the two signals output in the first step. Figure 5 shows a schematic diagram of splitting the traditional LCMV weighting process into two steps.
(2)通过分析SAR回波经过第一步处理后的信号特性,第一步完成之后在俯仰向各个通道内引入了FIR滤波处理,第k个子孔径的滤波器系统响应函数(2) By analyzing the signal characteristics of the SAR echo after the first step of processing, after the first step is completed, FIR filtering is introduced into each channel in the pitch direction, and the filter system response function of the kth sub-aperture
其中Kr为发射脉冲的调频信号,(d为俯仰向子孔径间隔,λ为波长,为回波窗中心时刻回波视角对于距离向快时间τ的一节偏微分)。HFIR_k(f)的相位为频率f的一次函数,这一系统传递函数对应时域内的延时处理,这可在星上通过一个8点的sinc插值核来实现(附图3所示)。Where K r is the frequency modulation signal of the transmitted pulse, (d is the pitch sub-aperture interval, λ is the wavelength, is the one-section partial differential of the echo angle of view at the center of the echo window with respect to the fast time τ in the range direction). The phase of H FIR_k (f) is a linear function of frequency f, and this system transfer function corresponds to delay processing in the time domain, which can be realized by an 8-point sinc interpolation kernel on the star (shown in Figure 3).
(3)在FIR滤波处理之后,再次根据信号特性,将LCMV拆分后的第二步加权处理的矢量做了相应的修正,将其变为保证了信号间的相干合成,使得最终获取最优的回波分离效果。(3) After the FIR filtering process, according to the signal characteristics again, the vector of the second step weighting process after the LCMV split Corrected accordingly, changing it to The coherent combination between signals is guaranteed, so that the optimal echo separation effect can be finally obtained.
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在具体实施过程中,首先需要全极化星载SAR在俯仰向上具有多个接收子孔径(附图3所示)。每个接收子孔径接收到的回波经过低噪放、下变频以及ADC采样后,按照如下流程进行实施:In the specific implementation process, it is first required that the fully polarized spaceborne SAR has multiple receiving sub-apertures in the elevation direction (shown in Figure 3). After the echo received by each receiving sub-aperture is subjected to low-noise amplifier, down-conversion and ADC sampling, it is implemented according to the following process:
(1)利用被拆分出的传统零点指向处理中的第一步对数字回波信号进行加权处理;(1) The digital echo signal is weighted by using the first step in the split traditional zero pointing process;
(2)通过每个俯仰向接收子孔径内相应的FIR滤波器对步骤(1)加权后的信号做相应的时延处理;(2) Perform corresponding delay processing on the weighted signal in step (1) through the corresponding FIR filter in each pitch receiving sub-aperture;
(3)最后,利用改进后的零点指向处理中第二步对步骤(2)得到的信号做相应的加权合成处理,即可获得分离开的H与V极化回波。(3) Finally, by using the second step of the improved null-pointing processing, the signals obtained in step (2) are correspondingly weighted and synthesized to obtain the separated H and V polarization echoes.
本发明设计的这一方法能够满足实际应用对不同极化回波的分离要求、且对星上运算量需求不高,能够在星上就实现实时分离。相应的系统处理框图如附图6所示,步骤如下:The method designed by the present invention can meet the separation requirements of different polarization echoes in practical applications, and has low demand for on-board computation, and can realize real-time separation on-board. The corresponding system processing block diagram is shown in Figure 6, and the steps are as follows:
(1)对平面相控阵天线俯仰向上各个接收通道内所接收到的回波依次进行低噪声放大、下变频以及ADC采样处理,将原始回波对应的高频模拟信号变为低频数字信号;(1) Perform low-noise amplification, down-conversion and ADC sampling processing on the echoes received in each receiving channel of the planar phased array antenna in turn, and convert the high-frequency analog signal corresponding to the original echo into a low-frequency digital signal;
(2)利用所述H极化脉冲与V极化脉冲的实时波达矢量v1与v2分别对步骤(1)所获得的低频数字信号进行加权处理,其中俯仰向第k个接收通道的低频数字信号分别被v1与v2的第k个元素w1k与w2k加权,k为正整数,且k∈[1,Ne],Ne为接收通道的个数;(2) Use the real-time arrival vectors v1 and v2 of the H-polarized pulse and V-polarized pulse to weight the low-frequency digital signal obtained in step ( 1 ) respectively, where the pitch is towards the k-th receiving channel The low-frequency digital signal is weighted by the kth elements w 1k and w 2k of v 1 and v 2 respectively, k is a positive integer, and k∈[1,N e ], N e is the number of receiving channels;
所述两个依次发射的所述H极化脉冲与V极化脉冲的波达矢量v1与v2是时变的,其表达式分别为波达矢量中的第k个元素可表示为
其中λ为波长、d为俯仰向接收通道间隔、θi(τ)为第i个子脉冲回波(i=1为H极化子脉冲,i=2为V极化子脉冲)在τ时刻对应的波达角,其计算方式按如下步骤进行:where λ is the wavelength, d is the receiving channel spacing in the pitch direction, θ i (τ) is the i-th sub-pulse echo (i=1 is the H polaroid sub-pulse, i=2 is the V polaroid sub-pulse) corresponding to The angle of arrival is calculated according to the following steps:
(a)通过公式R(τ)=c·τ/2计算在τ时刻H极化脉冲的回波所对应的瞬时斜距R;其中c为光速;V极化脉冲回波的斜距可表示为R'(τ)=c·(τ-T)/2,其中T为两个极化脉冲间的发射间隔;(a) Calculate the instantaneous slant distance R corresponding to the echo of the H-polarized pulse at time τ by the formula R(τ)=c·τ/2; where c is the speed of light; the slant distance of the echo of the V-polarized pulse can be expressed as is R'(τ)=c·(τ-T)/2, where T is the emission interval between two polarized pulses;
(b)根据步骤(a)中计算得到的瞬时斜距R(τ),根据公式(b) According to the instantaneous slope distance R(τ) calculated in step (a), according to the formula
求解出H极化脉冲回波的瞬时星下点视角α(τ),其中Re为地球半径,H为卫星轨道高度; Solve the instantaneous sub-satellite point angle α(τ) of the H-polarized pulse echo, where R e is the radius of the earth, and H is the satellite orbit height;
(c)根据天线俯仰向法向星下点视角αc以及步骤(b)中计算得到的瞬时回波星下点视角α(τ),利用公式θ(τ)=α(τ)-αc求得回波相应的波达角。(c) According to the angle of view of the sub-satellite point α c in the normal direction of the antenna and the angle of view of the instantaneous echo sub-satellite point α(τ) calculated in step (b), use the formula θ(τ)=α(τ)-α c Obtain the corresponding angle of arrival of the echo.
(3)将俯仰向各个接收通道中两路经不同权值v1与v2加权的信号进行相应的FIR滤波处理;(3) Perform corresponding FIR filtering processing on the two signals weighted by different weights v 1 and v 2 in each receiving channel in the pitch direction;
所述FIR滤波器为一8阶时延滤波器,俯仰向第k个接收通道相应的时延量为其中Kr为发射脉冲的线性调频率,为在脉冲经过场景中心时刻τc时波达角θ(τ)对距离向快时间τ的一阶偏导。The FIR filter is an 8th-order time delay filter, and the corresponding time delay of the pitching kth receiving channel is where K r is the chirp frequency of the transmitted pulse, is the first-order partial derivative of the angle of arrival θ(τ) with respect to the range fast time τ when the pulse passes through the scene center time τc.
(4)各个接收通道输出的经过加权矢量v1以及FIR滤波器处理的信号矢量进行累加合成输出,生成一路信号;各个接收通道输出的经过加权矢量v2以及FIR滤波器处理的信号矢量进行累加合成输出,生成另一路信号;(4) The signal vectors processed by the weighted vector v 1 and the FIR filter output by each receiving channel are accumulated and synthesized to output, and a signal is generated; the signal vectors processed by the weighted vector v 2 and the FIR filter output by each receiving channel are accumulated Composite output to generate another signal;
(5)通过第一组加权矢量对步骤(4)得到的两路信号进行加权合成输出,得到在一个完整的脉冲发射期间第一个发射的H极化脉冲的回波信号;(5) Through the first set of weighted vectors The two-way signals obtained in step (4) are weighted and synthesized to obtain the echo signal of the first H-polarized pulse transmitted during a complete pulse transmission period;
(6)通过第二组加权矢量对步骤(4)得到的两路信号进行加权合成输出,得到在一个完整的脉冲发射期间第二个发射的V极化脉冲的回波信号。(6) Through the second set of weighted vectors The two signals obtained in step (4) are weighted and synthesized to obtain the echo signal of the second transmitted V-polarized pulse during a complete pulse transmission period.
步骤(5)与(6)中的加权矢量分别为矩阵Ne[(V')HV']-1的第一行与第二行,其中,(V')HV'由以下公式来获得:Weight vectors in steps (5) and (6) are respectively the first row and the second row of the matrix N e [(V') H V'] -1 , where (V') H V' is obtained by the following formula:
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