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However, the inevitable imbalance between channels can seriously affect the azimuth reconstruction spectrum, introducing ghost targets into the final imaging results and degrading the SAR image quality. In order to address this issue, this paper proposes a channel imbalance estimation method based on minimizing the sum of the sub-band norm (MSSBN) for the reconstructed azimuth spectrum. First, the amplitude imbalance is calibrated in the range-Doppler domain. Then, the echo in each channel with phase imbalances is reconstructed by filters separately and converted to the range-Doppler domain. Finally, the global optimization algorithm is used to find the phase error of each channel so that the reconstructed postcompensation spectrum has the smallest sub-band spectrum norm sum. By two-dimensional blocking, this method can also estimate the space-varying phase imbalance in the range dimension and the time-varying phase imbalance in the azimuth dimension. Experimental results using simulated and actual AMC SAR data from the GF-3 system validate the proposed algorithm\u2019s high estimation accuracy and excellent computational efficiency.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15061561","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,13]],"date-time":"2023-03-13T04:35:41Z","timestamp":1678682141000},"page":"1561","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["An Efficient Channel Imbalance Estimation Method Based on Subadditivity of Linear Normed Space of Sub-Band Spectrum for Azimuth Multichannel SAR"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-3337-4837","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zongxiang","family":"Xu","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 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1486-7580","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pingping","family":"Lu","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 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1252-7542","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yonghua","family":"Cai","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 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Junfeng","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 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tianyuan","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yirong","family":"Wu","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 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9850-7015","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Robert","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 100049, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,3,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Cumming, I.G., and Wong, F.H. 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