New precision guidance method based on bistatic synthetic aperture radar

A new method is presented to improve guidance precision. This method is based on bistatic synthetic aperture radar. The illuminator works in side looking mode, providing the synthetic aperture and the receiver is disposed on the seeker which operates in the forward looking mode. The receiving antenna is composed of four sub-antennas and so four synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images are to be generated. Target is positioned in SAR images by image matching. The bearing and elevation of image element of target are measured by the principle of monopulse angular measurement. Theory of the proposed method is derived and simulation on bearing measurement is done. Simulation shows that the method is valid and if SNR of target's image is above 30 dB, the angular measuring difference is within the confines of 0.04 degree.