Translational motion compensation for ISAR imaging under low SNR by minimum entropy

In general, conventional error correction for inverse synthetic aperture radarimaging consists of range alignment and phase adjustment, which compensate range shift and phase error, respectively. Minimum entropy-based methods have been proposed to realize range alignment and phase adjustment. However, it becomes challenging to align high-resolution profiles when strong noise presents, even using entropy minimization. Consequently, the subsequent phase adjustment fails to correct phase errors. In this article, we propose a novel method for translational motion correction, where entropy minimization is utilized to achieve range alignment and phase adjustment jointly. And, a coordinate descent algorithm is proposed to solve the optimization implemented by quasi-Newton algorithm. Moreover, a method for coarse motion estimation is also proposed for initialization in solving the optimization. Both simulated and real-measured datasets are used to confirm the effectiveness of the joint motion correction in low signal-to-noise ratio situations.

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