一种改进的方位多通道SAR误差校正方法

Improved channel error calibration method for the azimuth multichannel SAR

在方位多通道合成孔径雷达成像中,常根据多普勒模糊分量个数划分噪声子空间和信号子空间,并利用子空间的正交性来估计通道误差.为了避免模糊分量先验信息不准确对子空间划分和通道误差估计精度的影响,文中提出了一种改进的通道误差校正方法.该方法采用空间谱估计技术,估计出模糊分量个数、编号等信息,进而构造导向矢量和代价函数估计出通道误差,有效解决了模糊分量随基带频率变化时子空间划分不准确的问题,提高了成像质量.实测数据处理结果证明了文中算法的有效性.

In multichannel synthetic aperture radar （SAR） imaging, the orthogonality of the noise subspace and the signal subspace is usually adopted to estimate the channel error. The division of the subspace is based on the number of ambiguity components. In order to avoid the effect of the inaccurate ambiguity components on the subspace division and the channel error estimation, an improved channel error calibration method is proposed, which can lead to the accurate information on the ambiguity components by the spatial spectrum estimation and calibrate the channel error precisely. The real data results validate the method.