High-Speed Maneuvering Platforms Squint Beam-Steering SAR Imaging Without Subaperture

This paper investigates the imaging problems in squint beam-steering synthetic aperture radar (SBS-SAR) mounted on high-speed platforms with constant acceleration. The cross-range-dependent range cell migration (RCM) is compensated by keystone transform (KT) and time domain RCM correction (RCMC). By derotation and phase compensation, the KT of Doppler folded signal is achieved without zero-padding. For azimuth processing, the signal is reconstructed by the nonlinear phase and range-dependent derotation. Then, the space-variant (SV) Doppler chirp rate is corrected by time domain azimuth nonlinear chirp scaling (ANCS). After frequency domain matched filtering, the full aperture signal is focused in the 2-D time domain. The algorithm is validated by simulated SAR data, including the evaluation of RCMC with KT, geometric correction, and the focusing performance.

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