Review of High-resolution Imaging Techniques of Wideband Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar

Abstract

At present, the emphasis of Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) systems on the characteristics of high carrier frequency, wide bandwidth, multi-polarization capability, distribution, and networking has led to the development and progress of ISAR imaging technology. The development and changes of ISAR imaging technology can be summarized into two aspects: fine imaging to improve the image quality and multidimensional imaging to enrich the image information. The methods of radar fine imaging (such as radar echo pulse compression, radar system distortion correction, high velocity motion compensation, range profile focusing, translational motion compensation, rotational motion compensation, image reconstruction, and image display) are reviewed firstly in this study. Next, the expansion of radar imaging dimensions is summarized, including full polarization fusion, multi-band fusion, multi-station and multi-view imaging, and three-dimensional imaging, etc. Finally, the imaging development trend of combining imaging modeling, fine imaging of complex scene, real-time imaging, image evaluation, and application is proposed.

Keywords

• inverse synthetic aperture radar (isar) imaging
• system distortion compensation
• motion compensation
• full polarization imaging
• multi-band fusion
• multi-station and multi-view imaging
• 3d imaging