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IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
卷 19, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2020.3047874
关键词
Calibration; Synthetic aperture radar; Radar antennas; Phased arrays; Antenna measurements; Receiving antennas; Radar imaging; Channel mismatch; digital beamforming (DBF); synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
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资金
- National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars [61825106]
- National Science Fund [61701479]
Digital beamforming synthetic aperture radar is a promising technology to improve the performance of radar systems for high-resolution and wide-swath imaging. This letter describes the configuration of a 16-channel DBF-SAR system and proposes an internal calibration technique to enhance SAR image quality.
Digital beamforming (DBF) synthetic aperture radar (DBSAR) is a promising candidate to overcome the constraint of minimum antenna area in the traditional single-channel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system for achieving high-resolution and wide-swath (HRWS) image. On reception, DBF technology in elevation can significantly improve the system performance such as its sensitivity, ambiguity level, and the output signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) by Scan-On-Receive (SCORE). However, the inevitable channel mismatch will result in a beam-pointing error and further deteriorate the output SNR in the final SAR images. In this letter, the configuration of the 16-channel DBF-SAR system is described. A scheme of semi-physical simulation testbed for 1-D point target imaging is designed. Based on this, a detailed internal calibration technique combined with DBSAR mode is proposed to calibrate the channel mismatch and thus improve the SAR image quality. The real 1-D raw data experiment is performed to validate the proposed scheme. Finally, the imaging results from the practical flight experiment are shown and analyzed.
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