Abstract
Conventional synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image formation requires uniform sampling along the azimuth direction. These image formation relies on frequency domain algorithms including the Range-Doppler Algorithm (RDA), Chirp-Scaling Algorithm (CSA) [1] etc, that make use of azimuth Fast Fourier Transform, hence the requirement of uniform sampling. While uniform sampling in space is not always achievable, the samples can be interpolated onto a uniform grid given the sampling rate is Nyquist. This paper studies the effect of SAR image formation when the azimuth sampling is not uniform, and not Nyquist in some interval. The result showed that even if there is a wide interval in the middle of the synthetic aperture with no samples, an image can still be formed. This result could be useful when the SAR antenna is a phased array, or when the hardware is generating bursts of pulses followed by a quiet window.
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