SUB-APERTURE FOCUSING ALGORITHM OF GEOSYNCHRONOUS SAR

Abstract. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) on the geosynchronous orbit has the advantage in remote sensing, with high resolution to provide a large coverage in a short visit time. the space-variant coverage and range-azimuth couple of GEO SAR are required to compensate, using the electrical beam steering, the irregular data acquisition can be convert to classical SAR modes, such as stripmap, spotlight, sliding spotlight, and terrain observation by progressive scans (TOPS) SAR, the dopper analysis of these work modes of SAR have been studied. Based on deramping processing and improved subaperture chirp scaling algorithm, a novel focusing approach is presented in this paper, whose performance is determined by the work mode, data acquisition and the deramping processing. Data of each mode can be focused by utilizing this presented approach with the information of subapterture centroid time and range rotation center. Simulation results are presented to validate the analysis of the proposed approach.