A Fast SAR Imaging Method for Ground Moving Target Using a Second-Order WVD Transform

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging of a ground moving target, long-time coherent integration may effectively improve the imaging quality, whereas the imaging performance may severely degrade due to the range migration and the Doppler frequency migration. In this paper, a novel motion parameter estimation method named second-order Wigner-Ville distribution (SoWVD) transform is proposed, and then, a new SAR imaging method based on the SoWVD for a ground moving target is developed. As a modified Wigner-Ville distribution method, the SoWVD method can estimate the motion parameter without the search procedure, which achieves motion parameter estimation by Fourier transform operations in the 2-D frequency plane with respect to the slow time and the delay time. In addition, it can effectively recognize the cross terms based on multiple symmetrical properties of the peaks in the 2-D frequency domain. Both simulated and real data processing results are presented to validate the proposed imaging method.

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