Doppler Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging

We consider synthetic aperture radar system using ultra-narrowband continuous waveforms, which we refer to as Doppler Synthetic Aperture Radar (DSAR). We present a novel image formation method for bi-static DSAR. Our method first correlates the received signal with a scaled or frequency-shifted version of the transmitted signal over a finite time window, and then uses microlocal analysis to reconstruct the scene by a filtered-backprojection of the correlated signals. Our approach can be used under non-ideal imaging scenarios such as arbitrary flight trajectories and non-flat topography. Furthermore, it is an analytic reconstruction technique which can be made computationally efficient. We present numerical experiments to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.