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Based on the analysis of the signal characteristics of GEO satellite\u2013ground bistatic SAR (GEO SG-BiSAR), it is found that the bistatic echo signal has problems of azimuth spectrum aliasing and 2-D spatial variability. Therefore, to overcome those problems, a novel SAR imaging method for a GEO SG-BiSAR system with severe azimuth spectrum aliasing and 2-D spatial variability is proposed. Firstly, based on the geometric configuration of the GEO SG-BiSAR system, the time-domain and frequency-domain expressions of the signal are derived in detail. Secondly, in order to avoid the increasing cost caused by traditional multi-channel reception technology and the processing burden caused by inter-channel errors, the azimuth deramping is executed to solve the azimuth spectrum aliasing of the signal under the special geometric structure of GEO SG-BiSAR. Thirdly, based on the investigation of azimuth and range spatial variability characteristics of GEO SG-BiSAR in the Range Doppler (RD) domain, the azimuth spatial variability correction strategy is proposed. The signal corrected by the correction strategy has the same migration characteristics as monostatic radar. Therefore, the traditional chirp scaling function (CSF) is also modified to solve the range spatial variability of the signal. Finally, the two-dimensional spectrum of GEO SG-BiSAR with modified chirp scaling processing is derived, followed by the SPECAN operation to obtain the focused SAR image. Furthermore, the completed flowchart is also given to display the main composed parts for GEO SG-BiSAR imaging. Both azimuth spectrum aliasing and 2-D spatial variability are taken into account in the imaging method. The simulated data and the real data obtained by the Beidou navigation satellite are used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16152853","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,5]],"date-time":"2024-08-05T11:28:54Z","timestamp":1722857334000},"page":"2853","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["A Novel SAR Imaging Method for GEO Satellite\u2013Ground Bistatic SAR System with Severe Azimuth Spectrum Aliasing and 2-D Spatial Variability"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Jingjing","family":"Ti","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Zhiyong","family":"Suo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Yi","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]},{"given":"Bingji","family":"Zhao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, Beijing 100094, China"}]},{"given":"Jiabao","family":"Xi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,8,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"324","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.1983.350561","article-title":"Synthetic aperture radar imaging from an inclined geosynchronous orbit","volume":"3","author":"Tomiyasu","year":"1983","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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