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When operated with a variable pulse repetition interval (PRI), a staggered SAR can realize HRWS imaging, which needs to be reconstructed due to echo pulse loss and a nonuniformly sampled signal along the azimuth. The existing reconstruction algorithms are designed for stationary scenes in a staggered SAR mode, and thus, produce evident image defocusing caused by complex target motion for moving targets. Typically, the nonuniform sampling and complex motion of maritime targets aggravate the spectrum aliasing in a staggered SAR mode, causing inevitable ambiguity and degradation in its reconstruction performance. To this end, this study analyzed the spectrum of maritime targets in a staggered SAR system through theoretical derivation. After this, a reconstruction method named MBLCFD (Modified Best Linear Unbaised and Complex-Lag Time-Frequency Distribution) is proposed to refocus the blurred maritime target. First, the signal model of the maritime target with 3D rotation accompanying roll\u2013pitch\u2013yaw movement was established under the curved orbit of the satellite. The best linear unbiased (BLU) method was modified to alleviate the coupling of nonuniform sampling and target motion. A precise SAR algorithm was performed based on the method of inverse reversion to counteract the effect of a curved orbit and wide swath. Based on the hybrid SAR\/ISAR technique, the complex-lag time-frequency distribution was exploited to refocus the maritime target images. Simulations and experiments were carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, providing precise refocusing performance in staggered mode.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16091550","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,26]],"date-time":"2024-04-26T10:56:32Z","timestamp":1714128992000},"page":"1550","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Maritime Moving Target Reconstruction via MBLCFD in Staggered SAR System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0009-4428","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xin","family":"Qi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 92 West Dazhi Street, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Yun","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 92 West Dazhi Street, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0618-2768","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yicheng","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 92 West Dazhi Street, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7600-6079","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zitao","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 92 West Dazhi Street, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Xinyue","family":"Ma","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 92 West Dazhi Street, Harbin 150001, China"}]},{"given":"Xuan","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, No. 92 West Dazhi Street, Harbin 150001, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Sparse Logistic Regression-Based One-Bit SAR Imaging","volume":"61","author":"Ge","year":"2023","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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