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In sliding spotlight SAR, the utilization of beam progressive sweeping in azimuth causes antenna phase centers to be misaligned from the sensor path, resulting in the phase mismatch between channels. Then, spatial channel co-registration required in the DPCA cannot be achieved directly by an azimuth time shift. In this study, a calibration method based on scanning geometry of the dual-channel sliding spotlight SAR is developed to address this issue. Moreover, the effect of the phase mismatch calibration on the estimation of azimuth time difference between the two channels is derived and analyzed in depth. 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