Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar imaging using ultranarrow-band continuous waveforms

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 bistatic DSAR. Our method first correlates the translated version of 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. We show that the resolution of the image is directly related to the length of the support of the windowing function, the carrier-frequency of the transmitted waveform, and the sampling rate of the aperture. We present numerical experiments to demonstrate the performance of the new imaging method.