An Accurate Resampling Strategy for Spaceborne SAR With PRI Variation
Conference: EUSAR 2021 - 13th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar
03/29/2021 - 04/01/2021 at online
Proceedings: EUSAR 2021
Pages: 5Language: englishTyp: PDF
Authors:
Zhou, Zi-Xuan (Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Deng, Yunkai; Wang, Robert (Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
Abstract:
For spaceborne high-squint spotlight synthetic aperture radar, the range migration can be comparable to the swath width. In this case, the effective data rate can be significantly increased by continuously varying the pulse repetition interval (PRI) according to the change of the slant range. This paper presents an accurate resampling strategy for the nonuniform data caused by the PRI variation. A novel preprocessing is proposed to resolve the spectrum aliasing, which improves the accuracy of the subsequent resampling realized by the weighted nonuniform fast Fourier transform. Simulation results have verified the effectiveness of the proposed strategy.