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The two-dimensional spatial variation of the Doppler parameters is the most significant characteristic of the sliding spotlight space-borne SAR system under the requirements of HRWS. Therefore, the compensation of the two-dimensional spatial variation is the most challenging problem faced in the imaging of HRWS situations. The compensatory approach is then proposed to address this problem in this paper. The spatial distribution of the Doppler parameters for the HRWS space-borne SAR data in the sliding spotlight working mode is firstly analyzed, based on which a Spatial-Variant Equivalent Slant Range Model (SV-ESRM) is put forward to accurately formulate the range history for the distributed target. By introducing an azimuth-varying term, the SV-ESRM can precisely describe the range history for not only central targets but also marginal targets, which is more adaptive to the HRWS space-borne SAR requirements. Based on the SV-ESRM, a Modified Hybrid Correlation Algorithm (MHCA) for HRWS space-borne SAR imaging is derived to focus the full-scene data on one single imaging processing. A Doppler phase perturbation incorporated with the sub-aperture method is firstly performed to eliminate the azimuth variation of the Doppler parameters and remove the Doppler spectrum aliasing. Then, an advanced hybrid correlation is employed to achieve the precise differential Range Cell Migration (RCM) correction and Doppler phase compensation. A range phase perturbation method is also utilized to eliminate the range profile defocusing caused by range-azimuth coupling for marginal targets. Finally, a de-rotation processing is performed to remove the azimuth aliasing and the residual azimuth-variance and obtain the precisely focused SAR image. Simulation shows that the SAR echoes for a 20 km \u00d7 20 km scene with a 0.25 m resolution in both the range and azimuth directions could be focused precisely via one single imaging processing, which validates the feasibility of the proposed algorithm.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14020368","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,14]],"date-time":"2022-01-14T03:14:03Z","timestamp":1642130043000},"page":"368","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A Novel Imaging Algorithm for High-Resolution Wide-Swath Space-Borne SAR Based on a Spatial-Variant Equivalent Squint Range Model"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4658-7559","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanan","family":"Guo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Pengbo","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Zhirong","family":"Men","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China"}]},{"given":"Lei","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering, Shanghai 201100, China"}]},{"given":"Lei","family":"Zhuang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering, Shanghai 201100, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"5078","DOI":"10.1109\/TSP.2017.2712124","article-title":"On Multiple Covariance Equality Testing with Application to SAR Change Detection","volume":"65","author":"Ciuonzo","year":"2017","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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