Unlike the traditional radar system, Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) system is capable of imaging a target scene to certain degree of cross-range resolution. And this resolution is mainly depends on the size of aperture synthesized. Thus, a good system ...
Unlike the traditional radar system, Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) system is capable of imaging a target scene to certain degree of cross-range resolution. And this resolution is mainly depends on the size of aperture synthesized. Thus, a good system model and inversion scheme should be developed to actually give effect of synthesizing aperture size, which in turn gives better cross range resolution of reconstructed target scene. Among several inversion scheme for SAR imaging, we uses an inversion scheme called wavefront reconstruction which has no approximation in wave propagation analysis, and try to verify whether the collected data with synthesized aperture actually gives the same support as that with physical aperture in the same size. To do this, we performed a signal subspace comparison of two imaging models with physical and synthesized arrays, respectively. Theoretical comparisons and numerical analysis using Gram-Schmidt procedures has been performed. The results showed that the synthesized array data fully span the physical array data with the same system geometry. This result strongly support the previously proposed inversion scheme valuable in high resolution radar imaging.