①National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; ②Key Laboratory of Technology in Geo-spatial Information Processing and Application System, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China; ③Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China
Abstract:High resolution wide swath SAR requires high power aperture product under the limit of small antenna. It also needs generating and receiving wideband signal. According to these problems, a space-time-frequency coding method based on crossed receiving is presented in this paper. This method increases power by transmitting multiple sub-bands and multiple waveforms and overcomes the limits of power aperture product. It synthesizes wideband signal by the method of crossed receiving without complicated imaging algorithm. Finally simulations show its feasibility and validity.