Error analysis of SAR motion compensation

Abstract

During Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) motion compensation processing, the residual uncompensated motion errors may degrade SAR images, and these errors mainly result from the positioning inaccuracies of the track and target. By analyzing SAR motion compensation method and the effect of the track and target positioning inaccuracies, this paper presents a model to calculate the residual uncompensated motion errors. According to the model, the residual errors mainly depend on the slant range error, Doppler centroid error, and the target height error. The computed results by the proposed model accord closely with the actual image quality.