ISAR Imaging of Multiple Targets Using Edge Detection and Hough Transform

This paper describes a fast method to derive ISAR images of multiple targets with different motion parameters. We use image processing techniques, edge detection and the Hough transform to find the slope of the range profile history of each target and to separate each range profile history. Simulation results of two closely spaced targets with different motion parameters confirm the effectiveness of this method.

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