Patent Document ID: 9286667
Application ID: 14260881
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of eliminating spurious echoes in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging, the method comprising: defining SAR imaging parameters, calculating spectrum of signal received, in each distance bin, of a zone of interest, locating a central frequency of fixed echoes backscattered by the zone of interest, the locating step further comprising: seeking a side where a slope is steepest on a curve of a measured spectrum, shifting a shape of a theoretical spectrum obtained based on characteristics of a radar antenna diagram on Doppler frequency axis to maximize a correlation between the theoretical and measured spectrum, seeking a frequency for which the theoretical spectrum is maximum, filtering spectra in each distance bin carried out by a bandpass filter centered on the central frequency of fixed echoes backscattered by the zone of interest, forming SAR sub images, and concatenating the SAR sub images to form a final SAR image.