An adaptive Bayesian super-resolution imaging algorithm based on the combined multiple frames data is proposed to enhance the azimuth resolution of airborne single-channel forward-looking radar. The echo of the forward-looking radar in the Gaussian noise is modeled, and the processing space is expanded from the low dimension of single frame data to the high dimension of multiple frames data to enhance the sparsity of domain scatterers. During the framework, the sparsity of the scatterers is modeled in spatial domain, and the imaging is converted into a problem of signal optimization based on Bayesian formalism. The final optimal result can be solved by the conjugate gradient method. In this framework, the statistic parameter is estimated with data-driven. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm both can increase the resolution of the forward-looking imaging results and suppress the artifacts.
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