Application of Genetic Algorithms to Transmit Code Problem of Synthetic Aperture Radar

Abstract

This paper presents the design and. development of a genetic algorithm to compute an upper bound to evaluate a formal algorithm developed to solve the transmit code problem of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The input to the genetic algorithm is a set of propagation matrices that contain virtual information of the transformation of a signal transmitted and received by a SAR. The output is an upper bound approximately 11 times smaller than the results provided by the formal algorithm. The contributions of this paper are twofold: the upper bound found for the transmit code problem, and a tool that can be used for further research in similar domains.