Vibration Error Compensation Imaging Algorithm for Arc Array SAR Besed on Parameter Estimation

Abstract

Arc array synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is a novel array imaging system for wide-area observation, with wide observation range and high resolution. Arc array synthetic aperture radar uses W-band as carrier signal, and W-band wavelength is short. The small high-frequency vibration of the helicopter-borne platform will cause significant changes in the phase of the echo signal, which will seriously deteriorate the imaging performance of arc array synthetic aperture radar. Based on the high order approximate imaging algorithm of arc array radar, this paper proposes a vibration phase error compensation imaging algorithm based on Short-time Fourier transform (STFT) parameter estimation. The algorithm uses the high-order approximation imaging algorithm of curved array radar to perform high-order approximation of the slant range model, compensates the range cell migration (RCM) and range azimuth coupling in the two-dimensional frequency domain, and finally realizes the vibration error compensation in the range Doppler domain. The simulation results of the lattice target verify the effectiveness of the imaging method.