Distributed Aperture Coherent Synthesis Method based on Two-stage Compensation

To solve the problem that it is difficult to accurately estimate the coherent parameters of distributed aperture radar under the condition of low signal-to-noise ratio, a distributed coherent synthesis method based on two-stage compensation is proposed in this paper. This method utilizes prior information such as system layout, beam pointing, and inertial navigation station location to perform coarse alignment of echoes at the first stage in time, and then uses cross-correlation method to estimate coherent parameters of delay and phase within a small range, and perform precise compensation of time and phase at the second stage, so as to realize the coherent synthesis of multiple radar echoes. Experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively realize distributed coherent synthesis processing under low signal-to-noise ratio.