Residual Motion Error Correction with Backprojection Multisquint Algorithm for Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry

For airborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data processing, it is essential to achieve precise motion compensation to obtain high-quality digital elevation models (DEMs). In this paper, a novel InSAR motion compensation method is developed, which combines the backprojection (BP) focusing and the multisquint (MSQ) technique. The algorithm is two-fold. For SAR image focusing, BP algorithm is applied to fully use the navigation information. Additionally, an explicit mathematical expression of residual motion error (RME) in the BP image is derived, which paves a way to integrating the MSQ algorithm in the azimuth spatial wavenumber domain for a refined RME correction. It is revealed that the proposed backprojection multisquint (BP-MSQ) algorithm exploits the motion error correction advantages of BP and MSQ simultaneously, which leads to significant improvements of InSAR image quality. Simulation and real data experiments are employed to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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