Study on the Real Time Imaging Algorithm for Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave Synthetic Aperture Radar

The combination of Frequency Modulation Continuous Wave (FMCW) and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) leads to the rapid development of a compact, low power consumption, cheap and high resolution imaging sensor. A corrected signal model of FMCW SAR is built in this paper which forms the basis for the following study. The generalized expression of FMCW SAR algorithms in frequency domain is derived. For the sake of reduce the computation, a simplified imaging flow with motion compensation operation is proposed and the errors introduced by the simplification is analyzed in detail. Finally, the simulated FMCW SAR data verify the feasibility of proposed method.