A High Frequency Vibration Compensation Approach For Terahertz SAR Based on Sinusoidal Frequency Modulation Fourier Transform

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Abstract
In this paper, a vibration estimation method for terahertz synthetic aperture radar (THz SAR) is proposed based on the sinusoidal frequency modulation Fourier transform (SFMFT), which directly operates on the phase term of the signal. Small high frequency vibration of the platform will introduce nonlinear phase modulation in radar echoes. To improve the potential of the method for vibration with multiple vibration frequencies, SFMFT is used to extract the vibration spectrum of the platform. When the vibration amplitude exceeds a certain threshold, the phase ambiguity will occur. To improve the range of estimable vibration amplitude, a method based on the conjugate cancellation of the phase errors with sub-band decomposition is introduced to reconstruct a signal with a longer equivalent wavelength. Then the accurate phase errors caused by the platform vibration can be estimated by performing SFMFT on the composite signal. The simulations prove that the proposed method is superior to the time-frequency (TF) analysis methods and can improve the range of estimable vibration amplitude.
Funding Information
  • National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFA0701004, 2018YFF01013004)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (61671432, 61731020, 61988102)
  • Key Project of Equipment Pre-Research Fund (6140413010401)
  • Science and Technology Key Project of Guangdong Province, China (2019B010157001)
  • Key Program of Scientific and Technological Innovation from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KGFZD-135-18-029)

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