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Abstract

The time-varying amplitude error and phase error in the multi-channel will affect the system performance of Range Digital Beam Forming-Synthetic Aperture Radar (RDBF-SAR), which will lead to the elevation of the side lobes amplitude of the echo signal, thus affecting the quality of space-borne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. A multi-channel error compensation method for space-borne RDBF-SAR is proposed in this paper. The echo signals of each channel are aligned in the frequency domain. For the amplitude error, the amplitude error compensation factor is obtained by comparing the amplitude of each channel signal with the amplitude of the reference channel signal. For the phase error, the phase error compensation factor is obtained by conjugate multiplication of the phase of each channel signal and the phase of the reference channel signal. Reduce the amount of calculation by averaging. This method can well compensate the amplitude error and phase error, suppress the elevation of the echo side lobe, and make the synthetic aperture radar image more focused and accurate. Finally, the effectiveness of the method is verified by simulation experiments. Under the simulation conditions in this paper, the amplitude compensation reduces the side lobes pulse compression amplitude by 2~10 dB, and the phase compensation reduces it by -1~9 dB.

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Ms. Lu Bai

Professor Wei Xu

Professor Pingping Huang

Prof. Weixian Tan

Professor Yaolong Qi