
The direct porting of the Range Migration Algorithm to GPUs for three-dimensional (3D) cylindrical synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) imaging faces difficulties in achieving real-time performance while the architecture and programming models of GPUs significantly differ from CPUs. This paper proposes a GPU-optimized implementation for accelerating CSAR imaging. The proposed method first exploits the concentric-square-grid (CSG) interpolation to reduce the computational complexity for reconstructing a uniform 2D wave-number domain. Although the CSG method transforms the 2D traversal interpolation into two independent 1D interpolations, the interval search to determine the position intervals for interpolation results in a substantial computational burden. Therefore, binary search is applied to avoid traditional point-to-point matching for efficiency improvement. Additionally, leveraging the partition independence of the grid distribution of CSG, the 360° data are divided into four streams along the diagonal for parallel processing. Furthermore, high-speed shared memory is utilized instead of high-latency global memory in the Hadamard product for the phase compensation stage. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves CSAR imaging on a 1440×100×128 dataset in 0.794 s, with an acceleration ratio of 35.09 compared to the CPU implementation and 5.97 compared to the conventional GPU implementation.
range migration algorithm (RMA), graphics processing unit (GPU), concentric-square-grid (CSG) interpolation, cylindrical synthetic aperture radar (CSAR)
range migration algorithm (RMA), graphics processing unit (GPU), concentric-square-grid (CSG) interpolation, cylindrical synthetic aperture radar (CSAR)
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