Abstract
In order to enable a testbed for spaceborne scanning synthetic aperture radar (ScanSAR) mode, in this letter, a ScanSAR autofocusing approach for airborne platforms has been developed. Autofocusing algorithms, such as the phase gradient autofocus (PGA) algorithm, prove to be a useful postprocessing technique to get refocused synthetic aperture radar images. However, conventional stripmap PGA does not work in ScanSAR mode when the full-aperture approach is used, due to the periodic data gaps in each subswath. To solve this problem, we extend the stripmap PGA to ScanSAR with some modifications, mainly in the subaperture segmentation and phase error estimation steps. The performance of extended stripmap PGA is evaluated by an airborne ScanSAR data set containing different types of terrain, with a high spatial resolution up to 3.5 m in azimuth.
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