An Improved Azimuth Reconstruction Method for Multichannel SAR Using Vandermonde Matrix

摘要

To overcome the contradiction between wide swath and high resolution in synthetic aperture radar systems, a multichannel azimuth reconstruction method is investigated to unambiguously recover the Doppler spectrum. The proposed method is derived from the least squares principle by exploiting a Vandermonde component of the system matrix. The Vandermonde matrix is Doppler independent and data independent. Reconstruction filter weightings can be easily achieved, and performance, including signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and azimuth ambiguity-to-signal ratio, can be explicitly expressed. By well-conditioning the Vandermonde matrix and coherent processing of all channels, the proposed method improves the reconstruction performance. In simulated reconstruction, compared with the conventional matrix inversion method, the SNR increases by approximately 30 dB.