The invention discloses a circular synthetic aperture radar imaging method, belonging to the technical field of electronic signal processing. The invention relates to a spatial remote sensing and air-to-ground observation information processing technology, in particular to an onboard circular synthetic aperture radar imaging technology. According to the imaging method, an original oblique plane echo is mapped to the ground plane by solving the inverse of a system kernel function, and the distribution of signals in a wave number domain is obtained by multiplying an azimuth frequency domain with a reference function, so that plane wave approximation is avoided, the problem that the size of an imaging area of the traditional polar format algorithm is limited can be solved, and the imaging of a large imaging scene can be realized; pseudo-polar coordinates are used for replacing rectangular coordinates as an intermediate interpolation transition matrix, and the distribution density characteristic of the signals in the wave number domain is considered, so that the interpolation precision is higher, the obtained image resolution is higher, and the high resolution imaging can be realized; the imaging process only involves one-dimensional interpolation, and fast algorithms such as chirp z transform (CZT) and inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) are adopted, so that the method has very high computational efficiency and can realize rapid imaging.