ISAR Image Formation

In this chapter, we will introduce the most commonly used ISAR range-Doppler image formation. However, if the Doppler spectrum generated by a rotating target has severe time variation, ISAR range-Doppler image will become smeared in the Doppler domain. In these cases, in addition to conventional rotational motion compensation (RMC) methods such as the polar formatting algorithm (PFA), the time-frequency-based image formation can be used. We will introduce the time-frequency image formation algorithm. For better display of two-dimensional (2-D) ISAR imagery, we suggest a useful windowing and zero-padding method for suppressing sidelobes.