Fourier Ptychography can be used in both Microscopy & Macroscopic
Ref. Guoan Zheng [Site1] [Site2]
Ref. Zheng G. Fourier ptychographic imaging: a MATLAB tutorial[M]. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2016.
Ref. Jason Holloway [Site1] [Site2]
Ref. Holloway J, Asif M S, Sharma M K, et al. Toward long-distance subdiffraction imaging using coherent camera arrays[J]. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 2016, 2(3): 251-265.
The forward imaging model can refer to [Link].