A system performs operations including receiving multi-dimensional single-look data from a sensor, applying multi-dimensional complex weighting functions including apodizations from among a general class of such functions to the complex data, so as to induce nonlinear variations in the amplitude and phase of the multi-dimensional spectral image responses, forming a number of features per voxel across a number of multi-dimensional spectral image responses, and using a multi-dimensional non-parametric classifier to form features to discriminate main lobe from sidelobe imaged voxels with the weighting function applied to received data. The operations include identifying each voxel by processing a set of transforms from the multi-dimensional complex weighting functions and outputting a multi-dimensional main lobe binary image, representing main lobe versus sidelobe locations.
Apparatus and method for single look main lobe and sidelobe discrimination in spectral domain images