Focusing bistatic forward-looking SAR using Chirp Scaling algorithm

Abstract

With appropriate geometry configurations, bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) can break through the limitations of monostatic SAR on forward-looking imaging. Thanks to such a capability, bistatic forward-looking SAR (BFSAR) has extensive potential applications. However, the current BFSAR imaging algorithms always involve the time-consuming interpolation to carry out range migration correction. This paper develops a Chirp Scaling type imaging algorithm, which just needs the complex multiplication and FFT, for BFSAR with two parallel moving stations. The simulation results validate the effectiveness of the method.