MULTICHANNEL SLIDING SPOTLIGHT SAR IMAGING: FIRST RESULT OF GF-3 SATELLITE

This paper demonstrates the first experiment of Gaofen-3 (GF-3) satellite operated in dual-channel sliding spotlight mode. First, the raw data of two channels need to be preprocessed, including channel error correction and signal reconstruction, so that it can be focused by the subsequent conventional single-channel sliding spotlight mode imaging methods. After imaging processing, to avoid the possible back-folded SAR image, it is necessary to carry out post-processing step. The imaging result of the data acquired by GF-3 is first given in this paper, it proves the capacity of achieving high-resolution wide-swath of multi-channel sliding spotlight mode, and the effectiveness of the processing method.