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| Algorithms for the Application of High Squint Large Region Image Formation to Hi-Band Airborne SAR |
| Li Yue-li Liang Dian-nong |
| School of Electronics Science and Engineering, NUDT, Changsha 410073, China |
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Abstract Based on the squinted mode Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), this paper describes the relationship between system parameters (wavelength, squint angle, resolution, swath) and phase errors, which caused by the approximation of slant range and 2-D frequency domain decoupling. The secondary approximation is proven to be accurate enough in normal Hi-band high squint SAR image formation. But, range-focus problem with time domain range walk correction limits the azimuth aperture of the Refined Range Doppler (RRD) algorithm; and the variant space Secondary Range Compression (SRC) causes degradation in the performance of normal Chirp Scaling (CS) algorithms. So with the consideration of variant space SRC, the Nonlinear CS algorithm is suitable for large region high squint imaging. Simulations of a MMW-band SAR system demonstrate the convolution.
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Received: 13 February 2007
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Corresponding Authors:
Li Yue-li
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2008, Vol. 30 
