Ground Moving Target Refocusing in SAR Imagery Using Scaled GHAF

In this paper, a new method is proposed to refocus a ground moving target in synthetic aperture radar imagery. In this method, range migration is compensated in the 2-D frequency domain, which can easily be implemented by using the complex multiplications, the fast Fourier transform (FFT), and the inverse FFT operations. Then, the received target signal in a range gate is characterized as a quadratic frequency-modulated (QFM) signal. Finally, a novel parameter estimation method, i.e., scaled generalized high-order ambiguity function (HAF), is proposed to transform the target signal into a signal on 2-D time–frequency plane and realize the 2-D coherent integration, where the peak position accurately determines the second- and third-order parameters of a QFM signal. Compared with our previously proposed generalized Hough-HAF method, the proposed method can obtain a better target focusing performance, since it can eliminate the incoherent operations in both range and azimuth directions. In addition, the proposed method is computationally efficient, since it is free of searching in the whole target focusing procedure. Both simulated and real data processing results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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