Abstract
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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