Multi-Channel Spaceborne SAR Imaging Method for Maritime Scenarios

The spaceborne SAR is required to fulfill the increasing demands for improved spatial resolution and wider swath coverage in recent years. The azimuth multi-channel SAR system is a typical technique adopted for realizing high-resolution and wide-swath (HRWS) simultaneously. The flexibility of this system also provides favorable conditions for moving target detection. Aiming at the problems of moving target detection, velocity estimation, and imaging of SAR maritime scenes in the spaceborne multi-channel system, this paper proposes a set of processes based on coarse imaging, detection, velocity estimation and refocusing. The experimental results of the simulation verify the effectiveness of the method.