Data efficient implementation of UWBWA SAR algorithms

It is shown that the particular form of the frequency support of raw data and focused imagery obtained from an ultra-wideband, wide beamwidth synthetic aperture radar system can be exploited in nonseparable sampling schemes to reduce the overall amount of raw data samples and image pixels that need to be stored and computed. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the constant integration angle backprojection (CIAB) image former implicitly applies a fan filter that interpolates raw data sampled on a quincunx grid back onto the underlying rectangular grid. This subtle property of the CIAB has not been exploited so far. It leads to higher quality images with less computational complexity