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The first mode is a conventional stripmap mode with a PRF much lower than the nominal Doppler bandwidth, allowing for the imaging of a large swath, because the ships\u2019 azimuth ambiguities can be recognized as they appear at known positions. The second mode exploits a continuous variation of the pulse repetition interval, with a mean PRF greater than the nominal Doppler bandwidth as the range ambiguities of the ships are smeared and are unlikely to determine false alarms. Both modes are thought to operate in open sea surveillance, monitoring Exclusive Economic Zones or international waters. Examples of implementation of both modes for TerraSAR-X show that ground swaths of 120 km or 240 km can be mapped with 2 m2 resolution, ensuring outstanding detection performance even for small ships. The importance of resolution over noise and ambiguity level was highlighted by a comparison with ScanSAR modes that image comparable swaths with better noise and ambiguity levels but coarser resolutions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14133102","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,29]],"date-time":"2022-06-29T01:48:38Z","timestamp":1656467318000},"page":"3102","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["High-Resolution Wide-Swath Ambiguous Synthetic Aperture Radar Modes for Ship Monitoring"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Nertjana","family":"Ustalli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Wessling, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1769-6927","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Michelangelo","family":"Villano","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center (DLR), 82234 Wessling, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,6,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"6","DOI":"10.1109\/MGRS.2013.2248301","article-title":"A tutorial on synthetic sperture radar","volume":"1","author":"Moreira","year":"2013","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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