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Airborne array flexible SAR can increase the baseline length to improve the resolution and interference performance by mounting antennae on the wing. The existing research lacks results obtained using flexible actual data processing and specific motion compensation methods. Thus, this paper proposes a motion error estimation and compensation method for an airborne array flexible SAR based on a multi-channel interferometric phase. Firstly, a flexible channel motion compensation model is established based on the multi-channel interference phase of airborne array flexible SAR. Then, based on the rigid multi-channel data, combined with the ground control points, the least square method, and the global optimal search algorithm, the accurate rigid baseline length and the central incidence angle are obtained. Finally, according to the multi-channel interference phase inversion of the flexible motion error and combined with the motion compensation model, the flexible data are compensated in the time domain. The actual results indicate that, compared with traditional motion compensation methods, our method can obtain accurate flexible compensation data. This study improves the interference performance of multi-channel data of airborne array flexible SAR and lays a solid foundation for the high-precision 3D reconstruction of airborne array flexible SAR.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15030680","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,24]],"date-time":"2023-01-24T01:59:03Z","timestamp":1674525543000},"page":"680","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Motion Error Estimation and Compensation of Airborne Array Flexible SAR Based on Multi-Channel Interferometric Phase"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Ling","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fubo","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yihong","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrumentation and Optoelectronic Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Longyong","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenhua","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dawei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"},{"name":"School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Li, X., Zhang, F., Li, Y., Guo, Q., Wan, Y., Bu, X., Liu, Y., and Liang, X. 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