Abstract
With the circular-scanning mode, we can obtain real-time synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of wide areas including both sides of the nadir line, which considerably benefits the terrain matching procedure. However, due to the continuous rotation of the antenna beam, the azimuth Doppler bandwidth of the circular-scanning SAR data will increase noticeably, which in turn will lead to the azimuth spectrum aliasing phenomenon. Existing approaches for the azimuth processing of the circular-scanning SAR data are based on the subaperture technique. However, when the pulse repetition frequency (PRF) is limited, these approaches result in the loss of azimuth resolution. In this letter, a new circular-scanning approach based on the deramping operation is proposed. The deramping operation could solve the problem of spectrum aliasing and the loss of azimuth resolution can be avoided. The performance of the proposed imaging approach is demonstrated by point targets simulation and real circular-scanning SAR data processing results.
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