An experiment of azimuth ambiguity suppression by multiple receiver apertures with airborne Ku-band synthetic aperture radar

This paper presents an experimental result to demonstrate azimuth ambiguity suppression with the displaced phase center antenna technique that is promising technique to realize the high resolution wide swath imagery for spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR). The dual receiver antenna data was acquired by airborne Ku-band SAR. In this paper, we propose a signal compensation procedure to cope with beam squint for the following coherent signal processing such as the dual channel reconstruction algorithm. The azimuth ambiguity suppression capability is evaluated by comparing the image reconstructed from dual-receiver channel to the single receiver channel image. The experimental result shows significant azimuth ambiguity suppression.