Novel acceleration compensation method for highly squint mode SAR with curve trajectory

Due to the influence of air currents and the control of the platform's own power system, acceleration is often present in the motion platform equipped with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system, which causes the actual trajectory of the platform to be curved. When the acceleration is large or the azimuth accumulation time is long, a large envelope error or phase error will be caused. This problem will be more obvious in highly squint mode SAR. On the other hand, the acceleration may also cause the situation where the absolute value of the Doppler frequency rate is extremely small, resulting in the azimuthal time-bandwidth product that is too small to satisfy the requirements of the stationary phase principle. To solve the above problems, a novel acceleration compensation method based on inertial navigation information is proposed in this article. By integrating the acceleration and velocity information provided by the inertial navigation system, the position information of maneuvering platform is obtained. Then the actual trajectory of the platform is constructed. On this basis, the envelope and phase errors caused by the acceleration are estimated. The results of real data processing verify the correctness of the analysis and the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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