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Abstract

Inverse sliding spotlight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is not as high as sliding spotlight SAR in azimuth resolution. Its azimuth resolution is constant, and it cannot meet the needs of multiple different azimuth resolutions. In order to solve this problem, a spaceborne inverse sliding spotlight SAR for nonuniform scanned scene is proposed. The design of the proposed inverse sliding spotlight SAR includes two parts: the design of the adaptive azimuth beam steering law and the design of the imaging algorithm. In the first part, the design of the adaptive azimuth beam steering law is based on multiple specific azimuth resolution requirements and the parameters of scanned scene. In the second part, the design of the imaging algorithm for the proposed inverse sliding spotlight SAR consists of three steps: filtering processing, phase compensation and upsampling processing, and image formation. Compared with the conventional inverse sliding spotlight SAR, the proposed inverse sliding spotlight SAR can achieve different azimuth resolution requirements for scanning targets at different positions in the scanned scene. Finally, the correctness of the proposed inverse sliding spotlight SAR is verified by simulation experiment and UAV SAR experiment.

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Ms. Yangyang Chen

Professor Wei Xu

Professor Pingping Huang

Prof. Weixian Tan

Professor Yaolong Qi