A spaceborne WAS-GMTI mode based on azimuth multi-channels

In this paper, the spaceborne wide-area surveillance ground moving target indication (WAS-GMTI) mode is proposed. In the proposed mode, the requirement of detecting targets from different aspect angles with a high revisit rate can be achieved by modifying the TOPS mode which steers antenna in the azimuth direction. And a three-channel system is chosen to achieve fine GMTI performance. With the three-channel system, the detection of moving targets is realized by displaced phase center antenna (DPCA) technique and the motion parameter is estimated using the interferometric phase. The feasibility of the proposed mode as well as the performance of GMTI is validated by theoretical analysis and simulation experiments.