Unambiguous parameter estimation of radial velocity approach for airborne SAR-GMTI

The ambiguous Doppler centroid causes incorrect estimation result of the radial velocity. For moving targets with fast radial velocity, an unambiguous estimation approach of the radial velocity is introduced for the airborne SAR system in this paper. First, two channels carried different wavelength can be constructed by range multilook processing (RMLP). Second, the instantaneous frequency curve of the moving target is obtained by polynomial fitting for each channel, where the linear term denotes the baseband Doppler centroid. Considering the fact that the difference of the estimated baseband Doppler centroid in two channels is equal to the difference of the absolute Doppler centroid, the unambiguous radial velocity can be estimated using it. Third, the range walk and the Doppler shift which are produced by the fast radial velocity can be eliminated by compensating a phase in the range-frequency and azimuth-time domain. As a result, the moving target will be reimaged and relocated after azimuth compression. The proposed approach will be applied to both single — and multi-channel SAR system. The simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.