The main problems involved in synthetic aperture sonar imaging are medium instability, slow mapping rate, and platform motion. Proposed solutions to these problems are reviewed, and a new technique for synthetic aperture sonar imaging is presented which allows a fast mapping rate and improved motion compensation. This technique involves using multiple receivers to form a complex-valued preliminary image for each pulse. The preliminary images are used to estimate translation and rotation, and then they are registered, phase corrected, and superimposed to form high-resolution synthetic aperture sonar images. >