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Therefore, the spherical wave approximation needs to be considered. In addition, it is also limited by equipment ambient noise, azimuth-distance coupling, wave scattering, and transmission power. Both the amplitude and phase of the signal suffer from the interference of multiple clutter, so they cannot be effectively utilized. To address these issues, this paper introduces a covering penetration detection system based on an improved Range Migration Algorithm (IMRMA) imaging method. Firstly, the proposed method minimizes interferences from the front end of the system using an optimized window to balance denoising and information preservation. Next, interval non-uniform interpolation, instead of Stolt interpolation decoupling, is employed to reduce the computational overhead significantly. To minimize the effects due to wave scattering and propagation loss, distance information is enhanced using amplitude and phase compensation. This reduces scattering effects and enhances image quality. An experimental system is constructed based on a vector network analyzer (VNA) to image the target. The proposed method takes about half the time of traditional RMA. The PSNR in the chunky bowl experiment is higher than 14 dB, which is higher than all the compared methods in the paper. The test results show that the designed system and the reported method can effectively achieve high-resolution images by strengthening the target intensity and suppressing the environmental artifacts.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs16173342","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,9]],"date-time":"2024-09-09T04:15:01Z","timestamp":1725855301000},"page":"3342","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Design of a Near-Field Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging System Based on Improved RMA"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-3440-0936","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yongcheng","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Huaqiang","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-5219-9747","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiawei","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hao","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qiying","family":"An","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kangming","family":"Hou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1597-1793","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jingjing","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Physics and Electronics, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,9,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3144","DOI":"10.1109\/TMTT.2023.3242287","article-title":"Microwave Imaging Enhanced by Duplexed Random Phase Modulations","volume":"71","author":"Zhang","year":"2023","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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