Synthetic aperture radar image processing of range ambiguous signals

If wide range swath scenes are illuminated by a synthetic aperture radar with high pulse repetition frequencies, ambiguous scattered signals from an undesired range may appear in its receiver at the same time from consecutively transmitted pulses. The present analysis shows that ambiguous signal returns may not have a significant detrimental effect because this signal is convolved with the phase history of the desired signal from a different range. A satellite borne SAR example is presented