Near-filed imaging method of two-dimension interferometric synthetic aperture radiometer

A near-field imaging method of two-dimension interferometric synthetic aperture radiometer was presented. Based on the principle of the two-dimension interferometric synthetic aperture radiometer and the near-field condition, the shortcomings of FFT(fast Fourier transform) imaging method were analyzed, and a near-filed numerical imaging method by phase compensating was proposed. The imaging simulation of single point-target by FFT reverse algorithm and the near-filed reverse algorithm were carried out respectively. The simulation results show that the near-filed reverse algorithm has better resolution than FFT reverse algorithm. The imaging experiment of two separate man-made points with these two methods was accomplished, and the experiment results prove that the near-field imaging method is valid.