A Method for 3-D ISAR Imaging of Space Debris

The radar echoes of space debris sometimes have drawbacks of inadequate pulse samples, self-occlusion, and data missing, while the state-of-art radar imaging algorithms become unproductive. To tackle this problem, this paper proposes a novel method for three-dimensional (3-D) imaging of space debris. This iterative algorithm terminates automatically and can recover the intensity of space debris radar cross section, making it practical in real-world applications. Unlike the 3-D imaging methods based on multistatic inverse synthetic aperture radar, the proposed method is applicable to monostatic ISAR.

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