PMID- 36215606 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20221010 IS - 1520-8532 (Electronic) IS - 1084-7529 (Linking) VI - 39 IP - 7 DP - 2022 Jul 1 TI - Strip SAR image simulation of a composite vehicle-ground model. PG - 1202-1209 LID - 10.1364/JOSAA.459445 [doi] AB - In this paper, the strip synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image of a composite vehicle-ground model is simulated by combining the electromagnetic scattering algorithm and radar imaging algorithm. A linear frequency modulated wave is incident on the composite model, which is partitioned into a mass of triangular patches. In the "stop-and-go" radar mode, for each patch, the amplitude of scattered echo in the frequency domain is solved by a hybrid method of physical optics (PO)-shooting and bouncing ray (SBR)-physical theory of diffraction (PTD). For the composite model, the total scattered echo in terms of range frequency and azimuth time is obtained by the vector superposition of echo on patches. Then the SAR image of the composite model is generated by the range-Doppler algorithm. In numerical simulations, both the electromagnetic scattering of a target by the SBR-PTD method and composite scattering by the PO-SBR-PTD method are validated and evaluated by comparing with the multilevel fast multipole method (MLFMM) in FEKO software. Moreover, the SAR image of the composite vehicle-ground model is also compared with the real image in Moving and Stationary Target Acquisition and Recognition database, which verifies the feasibility of the proposed method. SAR images of the composite model for different incident angles are also presented and analyzed. FAU - Li, Juan AU - Li J FAU - Li, Chong AU - Li C FAU - Guo, Li-Xin AU - Guo LX FAU - Wei, Yi-Wen AU - Wei YW FAU - Li, Ke AU - Li K FAU - Chai, Shui-Rong AU - Chai SR LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis JT - Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision JID - 9800943 SB - IM EDAT- 2022/10/11 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/11 06:01 CRDT- 2022/10/10 15:24 PHST- 2022/10/10 15:24 [entrez] PHST- 2022/10/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/11 06:01 [medline] AID - 476941 [pii] AID - 10.1364/JOSAA.459445 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2022 Jul 1;39(7):1202-1209. doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.459445.