noobmartin/Open-source-SAR-simulator

This project is a legacy academic or hobbyist reference implementation for SAR simulation. At over 13 years old with zero current velocity and a relatively low star count (81) given its age, it serves primarily as a historical or educational resource rather than a living software tool. The defensibility is low because the algorithms it likely implements (such as Range-Doppler or Chirp Scaling) are well-documented in textbooks and more robustly implemented in modern commercial suites like the MATLAB Radar Toolbox or high-end defense simulation software from Ansys or Raytheon. Frontier labs like OpenAI have no interest in this domain, and while platform providers like AWS/Google offer satellite data services, they do not compete at the level of raw radar wave simulation code. The main value of this repo is for researchers looking for a 'from scratch' implementation to understand the physics-to-image pipeline, but as a product or platform, it is effectively inert.