1. In conjunction with an airborne synthetic aperture radar system having an interferometer antenna and a display, a method for forming high resolution synthetic aperture radar imagery of a ship target under the influence of sea state conditions comprising the steps of: (a) processing the received signals from the scatterers comprising the ship target to obtain estimates of (1) the net doppler producing cross line-of-sight velocity of the radar bearing aircraft relative to the ship, and (2) the net doppler producing velocity in the direction orthogonal to the cross line-of-sight relative velocity and the radar line-of-sight to the center of rotation tracking point of the ship; (b) determining from the estimated doppler producing velocities the values of predetermined system parameters to be used predictively in the succeeding integration interval in forming the high resolution image of the ship target; and (c) displaying the formed imagery of the ship target including a range/azimuth projection, an azimuth/elevation profile projection, and a range/elevation profile projection.