Patent Document ID: 20050007269
Application ID: 10615687
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of generating a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image from a SAR signal, the SAR signal being indicative of a scene having a multitude of point scatterers and distributed area scatterers, the method comprising: performing a first partial data stabilization to a point operation on the SAR signal to generate a partially stabilized SAR signal, the first partial data stabilization including removing a high bandwidth azimuth chirp from the SAR signal; performing an along-track migration operation on the partially stabilized SAR signal to migrate SAR signal support of the scatterer in the scene as a function of along-track location of the scatterer in order to generate an along-track aligned partially stabilized SAR signal; performing a second partial data stabilization to a point operation on the along-track aligned partially stabilized SAR signal in order to complete the performance of the data stabilization to a point operation on the SAR signal and thereby generate an azimuth formatted SAR signal; and processing the azimuth formatted SAR signal to generate the SAR image.