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In the paper, the coordinates of the multichannel MEO SAR and the target, as well as the target\u2019s range equation with respect to each channel, are developed. Moreover, an expression of concise form is derived for the target\u2019s quadratic-approximated range equation, which will benefit the design of GMTI methods. Furthermore, theoretical analyses are conducted to reveal the dependency between the accuracy of the quadratic-approximated range equation and the parameters of the radar and the target. Numerical simulations are carried out to investigate the influence of the quadratic approximation of the range equation on the GMTI performance and to figure out the quadratic-approximated range equation\u2019s scope of application.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13142734","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,12]],"date-time":"2021-07-12T21:56:37Z","timestamp":1626126997000},"page":"2734","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["A Study on the Range Equation Modeling for Multichannel Medium-Earth-Orbit SAR-GMTI Systems"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Yongkang","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}]},{"given":"Tong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Tianyu","family":"Huo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}]},{"given":"Laisen","family":"Nie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi\u2019an 710072, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6","DOI":"10.1109\/MGRS.2013.2248301","article-title":"A Tutorial on Synthetic Aperture Radar","volume":"1","author":"Moreira","year":"2013","journal-title":"IEEE Mag. 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