The invention discloses a
broadband echo
predistortion compensation method applied to a high-resolution airborne
synthetic aperture radar (SAR), which comprises the following steps of: respectively fixing a
radar array plane and a
corner reflector at two ends of a
darkroom, generating M
broadband intermediate frequency dot frequency signals at intervals of S megahertz through a
radar board card DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter), performing up-conversion on the signals through a
radio frequency link, and transmitting the signals, the reflected
signal is reduced into an intermediate-frequency
signal through link down-conversion, and interference-free intermediate-frequency AD data are acquired synchronously by an ADC; performing down-conversion on the acquired AD data to a
baseband, extracting amplitude and phase values of frequency signals of each point through N-point FFT (
Fast Fourier Transform), and fitting a
broadband baseband echo
frequency spectrum curve through
Hermite interpolation; constructing a standard
baseband linear
frequency modulation signal, performing N-point FFT (
Fast Fourier Transform), comparing with a fitting spectrum after normalization, calculating amplitude-
phase difference and compensation coefficient of each frequency point, and setting the compensation coefficient of the frequency point lower than a
noise threshold value to 1 to form a broadband
frequency domain compensation coefficient; multiplying the
frequency domain of the standard baseband signal by the compensation coefficient point by point, and obtaining a compensated baseband transmitting signal through IFFT (Inverse
Fast Fourier Transform); the signal is subjected to up-conversion to a
system working
intermediate frequency, and a real part is quantized and then stored in an ROM to serve as a board card DA emission
data source. According to the method,
distortion of an
intermediate frequency link and an antenna end is covered at the same time, the compensation precision is high, ideal echoes can be effectively recovered, the SAR
imaging quality is remarkably improved, and the method is suitable for broadband
signal processing scenes of various high-resolution airborne SAR systems.