High resolution ISAR imaging in receiver centered region area in bistatic radar

Aim at overcoming limitations from a single fixed aspect in monostatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) system, bistatic radar system becomes a hot research topic in ISAR imaging. However, it is become more difficult to obtain a high resolution ISAR image of maneuvering target in receiver centered region area of bistatic radar for time varying bistastic angle and equivalent line of sight (LOS) aspect. In this paper, a super-resolution imaging method based on Radon transform combined with time chirp distribution search (TCDS) procedure is proposed. This method attempts to estimate the chirp rate and its changing rate corresponding to high-order phase terms in cross range. After compensating the phase error of high order, more scattering centers of target are extracted and high resolution imaging is generated by Radon-TCDS-Relax algorithm. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.

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