Abstract: The mixed programming for Nonlinear Chirp Scaling (NCS) algorithm was designed according to the requirements of space borne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) real time and near real time imaging. The two level pipelined parallel imaging of multiprocess and multithread with Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Pthread was researched and implemented on SMP cluster. Through the experiments on HP cluster, it is proved that the mixed program imaging algorithm can not only adapt to the instance that the time of one block of original echo data transferred from the front system is more than or equal to eight seconds, but also the instance that a great number of  original  echo data has been already accumulated.

Key words: Parallel imaging, Mixed programming, Nonlinear chirp scaling algorithm, Synthetic aperture radar, Satellite