Synthetic bandwidth method and experimental research based on a wideband multi-channel SAR

Synthetic bandwidth technique is used to increase frequency bandwidth of the system and provides an effective way to achieve the ultra high resolution in the field of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). But in the actual SAR system, the synthesis result will be seriously deteriorated by the inner-channel and inter-channel phase error. A frequency domain synthetic bandwidth method based on transfer function extracting technique is proposed in an actual SAR system which consists of single wideband transmit channel and 8-way down-conversion receive sub-channels. The method can accurately get the amplitude and phase characteristics of the sub-channel and compensate the amplitude-phase errors. The final experimental results demonstrate the validity and feasibility of the method and the range resolution down to 0.1 m is obtained.