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This paper presents an efficient and effective SAR residual focusing method that is practically applicable to SLC data. The residual Doppler spectrum of the moving target is derived from a general SAR configuration and normal SAR focusing. The processing steps are simple and straightforward, with a limited size of the processing window, e.g., 64 \u00d7 64. Application results using simulation data and actual TerraSAR-X SLC data with a speed-controlled vehicle demonstrate the effectiveness of the method, which particularly improves the \u22123 dB width, integrated sidelobe ratio, and symmetry of the reconstructed signals. In particular, the azimuthal symmetry becomes seriously distorted when the target speed is higher than 8 m\/s (or 28.8 km\/h), and the symmetry is well recovered by the proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9090926","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,9,6]],"date-time":"2017-09-06T11:23:34Z","timestamp":1504697014000},"page":"926","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Fast and Efficient Correction of Ground Moving Targets in a Synthetic Aperture Radar, Single-Look Complex Image"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"given":"Jeong-Won","family":"Park","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, 5006 Bergen, Norway"}]},{"given":"Jae","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9255-9407","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Joong-Sun","family":"Won","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, South Korea"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,9,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"499","DOI":"10.1109\/TAES.1971.310292","article-title":"Synthetic aperture imaging radar and moving targets","volume":"7","author":"Raney","year":"1971","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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