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The automatic identification system (AIS) can provide real-time information of the ships, which is an important auxiliary method for ship surveillance. Up to now, the traditional fusion of SAR and AIS mainly has focused on location matching and auxiliary recognition, and the next generation of GaoFen-3 (GF-3NG) satellite is equipped with both a SAR sensor and an AIS sensor to obtain the SAR images and simultaneous AIS information of ships. Consequently, this paper proposes a novel scheme to improve the imaging quality of moving ships for GF-3NG using AIS information. In this paper, through introducing the virtual stationary target, the slant range derivation (SRD) algorithm is proposed to estimate the radial velocity (RV) and the radial acceleration (RA) between the ship and the SAR platform relative to the stationary scene. According to the calculated RV, the azimuth position offset can be estimated and the ship can be repositioned on the image. After that, the traditional method is conducted to suppress the false targets. Finally, the method of using the RA to refocus ship slices is proposed. 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