A Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery Simulation of Maritime Scene Using the Extended Nonlinear Chirp Scaling Algorithm

A bistatic synthetic aperture radar (Bis-SAR) imagery simulation of an extended maritime scene is presented. An efficient facet scattering model is developed to collect the raw coupling scattering data from a ship located on sea surface. Then, to avoid the inefficiency of time-domain algorithms and the azimuth-invariant limit of conventional frequency-domain (FD) methods in the bistatic case, an extended nonlinear chirp scaling (NLCS) algorithm is proposed to handle the bistatic data collected from this facet scattering model. The perfect Bis-SAR simulation results of the ship located on the sea surface could prove the validity of the proposed algorithms as well as the practicability of the model for the Bis-SAR imagery with large squint angle in the FD approach.