Ground Moving Target Indication for Spaceborne Multi-channel High Resolution Wide Swath SAR System

A method of Ground Moving Target Indication (GMTI) for spaceborne multi-channel High Resolution Wide Swath (HRWS) Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system is presented. Firstly, the method utilizes beamforming for clutter suppression, then estimates moving target direction by fitting for the slant range of the moving target. Secondly, focusing for the clutter suppressed data is performed to obtain ambiguous images of the moving target, then all ambiguous moving targets are obtained by Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) detection technology. Finally, this method detects real targets according to the spatial relationships of fuzzy images and motion direction estimated. The spaceborne HRWS simulation data verifies the validity of the proposed method.