Highly resolved turntable ISAR signature extraction for ATR

By means of data from highly resolved tower-turntable ISAR measurements this paper gives an overview of our work on an ATR process from the raw data acquisition to the final ATR performance evaluation. Main objectives are the radar imaging, the ATR robustness against small changes in the articulation of targets (e.g. military vehicles) and changes in the incidence angle. The recognition process is based on a template matching method. The two-dimensional templates are generated by extracting the most robust scatterers from the RCS image.