Segmented Reconstruction for Compressed Sensing SAR Imaging

The compressed sensing (CS) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging scheme can use random undersampled data to reconstruct images of sparse or compressible targets. However, compared to Nyquist sampling, the cost of the CS imaging scheme is the long reconstruction time, particularly for the conventional reconstruction strategy, which reconstructs the whole scene in one process. It also needs a large memory to access the sensing matrix used for reconstruction. In this paper, a segmented reconstruction strategy for the CS SAR imaging scheme is proposed. The whole scene is split into a set of small subscenes, so that the reconstruction time can be reduced significantly. The proposed method also needs much less memory for computation than the conventional method. In this proposed method, the range profiles are reconstructed first, and then, the range profiles can be split into subpatches. Subscenes can be reconstructed by using the subpatch data, and the whole scene can be obtained by combining the reconstructed subscenes. Simulation and experimental results are shown to demonstrate the validity of the proposed method.