Focusing of Highly Squinted SAR Data With Frequency Nonlinear Chirp Scaling

In this letter, several important aspects are addressed for highly squinted synthetic aperture radar data with subaperture (SA) processing. First, the influences of the reference linear range walk correction and the resulting residual Doppler centroid are addressed. Then, the differences between the full-aperture data and SA data in the azimuth focusing are investigated in detail. Finally, a novel frequency-nonlinear-chirp-scaling algorithm with an addition of highly varying residual Doppler centroid correction over azimuth is proposed to equalize the azimuth-variant Doppler parameters so that the uniform azimuth processing can be realized. Compared with the previous works, this addition greatly improves the focused quality of the final image. Airborne real data processing validates the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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