A Comprehensive Bi-Static Amplitude Compensated Range Migration Algorithm (AC-RMA).

In this paper, a comprehensive form of the range migration algorithm (RMA) is analytically derived for reconstructing the reflectivity function using synthetic aperture imaging techniques. Specifically, amplitude compensation, in addition to the typical phase compensation, is included in the development of the matched filter of the RMA, with the result herein referred to as the amplitude compensated RMA (AC-RMA). To illustrate the improvements offered by the AC-RMA, simulation and measurement (at Ka-band, 26.