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In the course of flight, the aircraft will deviate from the ideal flight path due to atmospheric turbulence, which results in the calculation deviating from the actual target position. In order to improve the target positioning accuracy, it is necessary to study the influence of aircraft motion error on the target positioning error. This study discusses the positioning accuracy of single-view airborne SAR from the perspective of linear Range-Doppler algorithm (RDA), and deduces the multi-view airborne SAR positioning error transfer model based on the multi-view airborne SAR positioning model. Based on these, we analyze the main factors that affect the positioning accuracy of the two positioning methods in detail and quantitatively reveal the mechanism by which the multi-view airborne SAR positioning method can improve the target positioning accuracy compared with the single-view airborne SAR positioning method; we also solve the problem of course planning for multi-view airborne SAR optimal positioning. The research results can provide theoretical support for the analysis of factors influencing positioning error and the positioning error correction of airborne SAR.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14133055","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,26]],"date-time":"2022-06-26T22:50:23Z","timestamp":1656283823000},"page":"3055","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Comparative Analysis of Single-View and Multi-View Airborne SAR Positioning Error and Course Planning for Multi-View Airborne SAR Optimal Positioning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Ben","family":"Zhang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Anxi","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8343-1209","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xing","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Zhengbin","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha 410073, China"}]},{"given":"Zhen","family":"Dong","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Electronic Science, National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), Changsha 410073, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,25]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chen, X., Yi, T., He, F., He, Z., and Dong, Z. 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