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  Synthetic aperture radar imaging provides high resolution images of large areas. The intensities of pixels in a SAR image are based on the spatial orientation, roughness, and dielectric constant of the surface imaged. SAR is an active sensor, transmitting its own energy, and then measuring the return scattered by the earth抯 surface back to the satellite抯 antenna. SAR processing is the transformation of raw SAR signal data into a spatial image. In this communication, we present a contribution concerning implementation of a SAR image formation with the IDL language. This process is performed in a frequency domain correlation of the received signal including range compression, range migration, and azimuth compression. The output is the final step in which the data is transposed back into its original format and written to an output file.