The present invention relates to a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging method, in which the method is in a stripmap mode of regions of the earth surface by a synthetic aperture radar transported by an air or satellite platform. And the process of performing N SAR acquisitions of, wherein the composite aperture radar comprises a single, non-separated antenna and a single receiver combined with the single, non-separated antenna, where N is an integer greater than 1. Each SAR acquisition in the stripmap mode is performed using each squint angle with respect to the flight direction of the composite aperture radar, and each of the declinations is used to perform other N-1 SAR acquisitions in the stripmap mode. It is the same or different from the declining angles. Each SAR acquisition in the stripmap mode is performed using each elevation angle for the nadir of the composite aperture radar, and each elevation angle is different in the stripmap mode. It is different from the elevation angles used to perform N-1 SAR acquisitions, and therefore, each SAR acquisition in the stripmap mode is different from the swaths observed through other N-1 SAR acquisitions in the stripmap mode. The result is related to the sworth of the surface. Each performed SAR acquisition in the stripmap mode is time interleaved individually or collectively with the radar transmission and reception operations of a single or group, and other N-1 SAR acquisitions in the performed stripmap mode. ), each radar transmission and reception operation performs transmission and reception of each radar beam in each acquisition direction defined by each elevation angle and each squint angle used for obtaining the SAR in the stripmap mode. And, by doing so, the respective acquisition directions are parallel to each other, resulting in a result that is not parallel to other N-1 SAR acquisitions in the performed stripmap mode. The method further includes generating SAR images of regions of a specific swath observed through the SAR acquisition in the stripmap mode, based on N SAR acquisitions in the performed stripmap mode. All generated SAR images are equal to half of the physical or equivalent length in the azimuth direction of a single, non-separated antenna and have one azimuth resolution.
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