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Nowadays the side-looking SAR echo data can be obtained easily from the commercial channel, while that of other SAR imaging modes such as squint, spotlight are difficult to be acquired. This paper presents a new scheme to transform the side-looking returns to squint ones, in a direct and an indirect approach respectively. Direct transformation uses the data with a wide azimuth beam angle. The maximum of the required squint angle is limited under several degrees. Squint data under indirect transformation can be obtained by adding a platform velocity along slant range according to the required squint angles. Then the squint data is determined by the angle between the new forward velocity and line-of-sight direction. This method results in higher squint angle compared with the first one. Verification shows the feasibility of these approaches with illustration of side-looking E-SAR raw data processing. The future work will be on the precise Doppler centroid estimation and effective imaging algorithm development.
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Guo, Y., Hong, W. & Mao, S. Side-looking echo data transform to squint mode SAR imaging. J. of Electron.(China) 19, 14–20 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11767-002-0003-5
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