Abstract
Staggered synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which operates with pulse repetition interval (PRI) variation, deals with the blind range problem caused by constant PRI in conventional high-resolution wide-swath SAR imaging. Due to the variation of PRI, there appear periodic loss of pulses and nonuniform sampling in azimuth. However, the exiting reconstruction methods mostly correct range curvature after resampling the nonuniform samplings into a uniform grid. It inevitably introduces the errors and thus affects the effectiveness of the correction. To solve the nonuniform sampling problem and eliminate the errors, our study proposes a reconstruction algorithm [reconstruction algorithm with modified second-order keystone transform (RMSKT)] with modified second-order keystone transform in staggered SAR mode. Moreover, to provide a priori knowledge required by the reconstruction, i.e., the nonuniform sampling distribution, which depends on PRI variation, our study first designs an optimal PRI variation scheme and optimizes the sequence parameters. With the designed PRIs sequence, the proposed RMSKT algorithm can achieve nonuniform range curvature correction and data reconstruction jointly. The proposed RMSKT algorithm shows significant improvements over the traditional reconstruction methods in terms of the peak-sidelobe ratio, the integral sidelobe ratio, and the azimuth ambiguity-to-signal ratio. Simulations and experiments on raw data generated in staggered mode are performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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