Mehrdad Soumekh

Department of Electrical Engineering, Bonner Hall, State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, NY 14260

Phone: (716) 645-3115, extension 2138

Fax: (716) 645-3656

Email: msoum@eng.buffalo.edu

Web Address: http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~msoum

The following book:

Synthetic Aperture Radar Signal Processing

with Matlab Algorithms

(Publisher: Wiley; ISBN: 0-471-29706-2)

is scheduled to be available in April of 1999.

For the table of contents of the book

click here (content.ps) or click here (content.pdf)

T-72 Tank MATLAB Movies:

Three SAR movie files for the T-72 tank (Circular SAR) example that appears in the book are available at the ftp site ftp.eng.buffalo.edu, cd /pub/msoum. Run the T72_movie.m in MATLAB; make sure to download the colormap file, c_map.dat. Make sure you have enough memory: one of the movie files is about 20 MBytes.

Description of T-72 Movie Files:

c_map.dat: Colormap file (for the 3D movie). T72_movie.m: .m file that shows the movie. T72_3D.mat: Reconstruction from 360 degrees of aspect angle data (full rotation) using the CSAR reconstruction algorithm in the book that yields 3D information; to run this, use: i_3D=1; polar=0; T72_movie. T72_rotate.mat: Reconstruction from 8 degrees of aspect angle data obtained at 4-degree rotation steps using the CSAR reconstruction algorithm in the book; to run this, use: i_3D=0; polar=0; T72_movie T72_polar.mat: Reconstruction from 8 degrees of aspect angle data obtained at 4-degree rotation steps using polar format processing; to run this, use: i_3D=0; polar=1; T72_movie.

SAR High Performance Computing Laboratory

The objective of this laboratory is to develop high-speed signal processing and image formation algorithms for Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems. Under the sponsorship of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Grant F49620-99-1-0140, a High Performance Computing (HPC) laboratory is established for analyzing the merits of various advanced SAR data collection and information processing algorithms such as Continuous Phase Modulation (CPM) chirp radar signaling and PRF staggering schemes for Electronic Counter Counter-Measure (ECCM), along-track monopulse SAR for Moving Target Detection (MTD), rejection of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) in FOliage PENetrating (FOPEN) SAR, alias-free processing of wide-beamwidth FOPEN SAR data, reconnaissance with Circular SAR (CSAR), and parallel architectures for near real-time image formation (Range Stacking) in FOPEN and Ground PENetrating (GPEN) SAR systems.

The SAR HPC laboratory is intended to establish the means by which the collaborative efforts between the PI and the Air Force and Navy laboratories are continued. It is anticipated that this collaboration would not only enhance the quality of research-related education at SUNY-Buffalo but also would yield results which are of significance to the research programs of the Department of Defense.

For an updated version of the corrections (in postscript form) for the book