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LI Yueli, LI Zesen, WANG Jian, et al. Modification and compensation of the line-of-sight motion error for multirotor UAV SAR[J]. Journal of Radars, 2022, 11(6): 1061–1080. doi: 10.12000/JR22082
Citation: LI Yueli, LI Zesen, WANG Jian, et al. Modification and compensation of the line-of-sight motion error for multirotor UAV SAR[J]. Journal of Radars, 2022, 11(6): 1061–1080. doi: 10.12000/JR22082
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Modification and Compensation of the Line-of-Sight Motion Error for Multirotor UAV SAR

DOI: 10.12000/JR22082

  • College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

Funds:  The National Ministries Foundation (61404150103, 50913030103)
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    Abstract
  • The multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has the advantages of small size, light weight, and low cost. However, imaging signal processing is complicated due to the extremely unstable flight path. Real-time adjustment of pulse repetition frequency based on inertial navigation data can compensate for the along-track displacement error in advance, but the residual error cannot be ignored for highly squinted high-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). Therefore, the residual along-track displacement error is extracted based on the difference between the measured displacement value and the ideal one, and then the Line-of-Sight (LOS) motion error of the squint imaging geometry is modified. The traditional first-order and second-order LOS error compensation factors are improved, and the tolerance of the amplitude and frequency of the sinusoidal displacement error of a multirotor UAV is analyzed based on paired echo theory. Simulation and flight experiments verify that the proposed method can reduce the LOS motion error by an order of magnitude in large squint imaging and significantly improve the imaging performance of the squinted SAR of a multirotor UAV.

     

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