Displaced phase center antenna SAR imaging based on compressed sensing

Abstract

The displaced phase center antenna (DPCA) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has the potential to achieve high azimuth resolution and wide swath. Its pulse repletion frequency (PRF) has to be selected such that SAR platform moves just one half of its total antenna length between subsequent radar pulses. If this condition is not satisfied, there will be nonuniform sampling in azimuth and azimuth ambiguities will appear when traditional imaging algorithms based on matched filter are used. We propose an innovative imaging algorithm based on compressed sensing (CS) which can reconstruct the scene well even though this rigid condition is not satisfied.