Super-resolution in a synthetic aperture imaging system

Large telescopes have reached a limit of practical realization, restricted by the high costs of manufacturing large and precise optics. To overcome these limitations, images can be collected from a strip aperture which rotates to synthesize a circular one. Variations of a Poisson maximum a priori (PMAP) algorithm are applied to the collection of frames to reconstruct and super-resolve the image set producing an estimate of the original object. We provide a brief discussion of the algorithms along with examples of their performance in a simulated imaging environment, with two different algorithm formulations