Patent ID: 8564473

Claim:
A method for constructing focused radar images, comprising: chopping, using a processing unit of a mobile carrier, a radar illumination period into p sub-periods, two successive sub-periods overlapping temporally; choosing, using the processing unit of the mobile carrier, n 0 successive sub-periods from among the p sub-periods, and for each of these n 0 sub-periods, performing radar acquisitions using a radar fixed to the mobile carrier to generate an image IM — 0 x of resolution R 0 ; applying, using the processing unit of the mobile carrier, an autofocus processing to each of the n 0 images IM — 0 x generated; and combining, using the processing unit of the mobile carrier, the n 0 images IM — 0 x processed by autofocus so as to generate at least one new focused radar image IM — 1 x .