Study on Azimuth Ambiguity Analysis of Single Phase Center Multiple Beams Synthetic Aperture Radar

A fundamental constraint in Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) designing is the contradiction between swath width and azimuth resolution. Single phase center multiple beams technique can alleviate the contradiction in some extent and is one of solutions to implement high resolution wide swath spaceborne synthetic aperture radar systems. In this paper, based on the introduction to the principle of single phase center multiple beams technique, the origin of azimuth ambiguities of single phase center multi-beam synthetic aperture radar is analyzed and the formula to compute azimuth ambiguities is presented. Then a simulation example of computing azimuth ambiguities of single phase center multi-beam synthetic aperture radar is given. The results of the paper can be reference for designing single phase center multi-beam synthetic aperture radar systems.