A MODIFIED OMEGA-K ALGORITHM BASED ON A RANGE EQUIVALENT MODEL FOR GEO SPACEBORNE-AIRBORNE BISAR IMAGING

Geosynchronous spaceborne-airborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar (GEO-BiSAR) has the advantages of wide beam coverage, long exposure time, and superior system flexibility. However, it is a challenge for GEO-BiSAR to efficiently acquire SAR images both with high resolution and wide swath due to the severe range and azimuth spatial variances. To deal with this issue, a modified Omega-K method is proposed in this paper. In the proposed algorithm, an equivalent range model associated with GEO-BiSAR configuration is built, where the equivalent parameters of the airborne radar receiver absorb the phase parameters corresponding to the GEO transmitter. Then, the Stolt interpolation is performed to realize the range-azimuth decoupling, achieving the linearization between range and frequency variables. Finally, a well-focused SAR image could be obtained after residual spatial variance error compensation. Simulations are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.