Ground accelerating moving target imaging method for airborne high-resolution CSSAR
The airborne circular stripmap synthetic aperture radar(CSSAR)has complex target signal characteristics and significant high-order components of the target range equation due to its circular motion,which brings many difficulties to the imaging of moving targets.Considering that high-resolution is the future development trend,a ground accelerated moving target imaging method is proposed for airborne high-resolution CSSAR.Firstly,to address the issue of significant high-order components in the target range equation,a fourth-order Taylor approximate range model is established to ensure the imaging quality.Next,a two-dimensional frequency-domain signal model of the target is derived,and it is proposed to efficiently achieve target focusing through two-dimensional frequency-domain phase multiplication.The differential evolution algorithm is also used to efficiently achieve accurate search of various parameters of the range model.Finally,the experimental results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.