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Due to the suppression of useful target signals via high-power RFI, the SAR imaging quality is severely degraded. Nevertheless, existing studies on RFI mitigation mainly focus on narrowband filtering, while wideband RFI mitigation methods are relatively lacking and perform non-robustly. In this paper, an RFI mitigation scheme is proposed based on instantaneous spectrum forward consecutive mean excision (FCME), which is suitable for both narrowband and wideband RFI mitigation. The SAR echo signal is first transformed into a time\u2013frequency (TF) domain through a short-time Fourier transform (STFT). On this basis, the instantaneous spectra polluted via RFI are detected via a kurtosis-based statistical test and then filtered via FCME to achieve RFI mitigation. Finally, connected component analysis is applied as a safety measure so as to avoid the unnecessary loss of useful target signal. The combination of FCME and connected component analysis enables the proposed method to thoroughly filter out RFI while retaining more useful target signals compared with other competing methods. The experimental results on real SAR raw data validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16010150","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,29]],"date-time":"2023-12-29T06:56:57Z","timestamp":1703833017000},"page":"150","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Radio Frequency Interference Mitigation in Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Based on Instantaneous Spectrum Forward Consecutive Mean Excision"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Zijian","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2749-6934","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenbo","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7268-489X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiamu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8373-7136","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhongjun","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}]},{"given":"Yao","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}]},{"given":"Yunhua","family":"Luo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,12,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6","DOI":"10.1109\/MGRS.2013.2248301","article-title":"A tutorial on synthetic aperture radar","volume":"1","author":"Moreira","year":"2013","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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