Synthetic Aperture Sonar Imaging via One-Way Wave Equations

TL;DR

This paper introduces an efficient synthetic aperture sonar imaging algorithm based on one-way wave equations, employing operator-splitting and BV-like regularization to improve image quality with real data.

Contribution

It presents a novel algorithm utilizing one-way wave equations and operator-splitting for improved synthetic aperture sonar imaging.

Findings

Algorithm successfully applied to real field data

Enhanced image quality with BV-like regularization

Proven well-posedness of the method

Abstract

We develop an efficient algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Sonar imaging based on the one-way wave equations. The algorithm utilizes the operator-splitting method to integrate the one-way wave equations. The well-posedness of the one-way wave equations and the proposed algorithm is shown. A computational result against real field data is reported and the resulting image is enhanced by the BV-like regularization.