A THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGING ALGORITHM FOR TOMOGRAPHY SAR BASED ON IMPROVED INTERPOLATED ARRAY TRANSFORM1

The imaging quality of tomography SAR is limited by the low number of flight tracks and their non-uniform distribution. In this paper, a new 3-D imaging algorithm is proposed for tomography SAR based on the improved interpolated array transform. The key point of the proposed algorithm is the introduction of the projection technique into the interpolated array transform, which can reduce the energy of the interference signal and improve the imaging quality. Performance analysis under different scenarios is carried out via the simulations. And the results demonstrate that the sidelobe performance can be significantly improved by the proposed algorithm.