Wide-Angle Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging: Models and algorithms for anisotropic scattering

Advances in radar hardware have enabled the sensing of ever-wider synthesized apertures. In this article, radar video - a sequence of radar images indexed on subaperture - is discussed as a natural, convenient, and revealing representation to capture wide-angle scattering behavior of complex objects. We review the inverse problem of recovering wide-angle scene reflectivity from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) measurements, survey signal processing approaches for its solution, and introduce a novel Bayesian estimation method. Examples from measured and simulated scattering data are presented to illustrate scattering behavior conveniently revealed by the SAR video framework.