IAA-Based High-Resolution ISAR Imaging With Small Rotational Angle

The Fourier transform-based range Doppler method is commonly used in an inverse synthetic aperture radar. Although it has achieved good success in most scenarios, its performance is determined by the rotational angle, and the cross-range resolution is extremely low in the case of a small rotational angle. In this letter, to improve the cross-range resolution, a novel cross-range compression scheme based on the iterative adaptive approach (IAA) is proposed. In addition to the standard IAA to achieve high resolution, the efficient IAA is introduced to suppress the sidelobes due to noise. Both the simulation and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method has the advantages of parameter-free, high accuracy, and high efficiency.

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