Road-Aided Along-Track Baseline Estimation in a Multichannel SAR-GMTI System

Abstract

In this letter, a novel method is proposed to estimate the along-track baseline for a multichannel synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system, intended for ground moving target indication (GMTI) applications. First, an adaptive spectrum filtering technique is proposed to compensate the terrain interferometric phase caused by the cross-track baseline and then the ground clutter is rejected by applying the joint-pixel displaced phase center antenna (JPDPCA). After performing the moving target detection, the target radial velocity is estimated according to the azimuth position offset by exploiting the road-aided information. Finally, the along-track baseline is derived based on the subspace projection (SP). The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by data from the experimental airborne system.