A Method for Synthesis of Frequency-Time Radio Images in Non-Radiating Radars

We propose a modification of the known method used to synthesize frequency time radio images in non-radiating radars and based on minimization of the r.m.s. deviation of the observation data vector from its linear model with an additional limitation imposed on the L 1 norm of the vector of the evaluated amplitudes of two-dimensional signal distribution in the range of delays and Doppler frequencies. The essence of the modification is that instead of solving the problem of conditional minimization at a full array in the “time delay—Doppler frequency shift” coordinates, this problem is solved sequentially for the zeroth and a preset frequency shift. In combination with additional computational tricks, the proposed modification allows one to increase the computational efficiency of image formation by three orders of magnitude.