High-Resolution Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging Based on the Shooting and Bouncing Ray Method

Author

Wang, X.B. ; Zhou, X.Y. ; Cui, T.J. ; Tao, Y.B. ; Lin, H.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Target Characteristics & Identification, Southeast Univ., Nanjing

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

This paper concerns the simulation of inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) image for radar targets based on the shooting and bouncing ray (SBR) method. Contrary to the conventional approach where the ISAR image is obtained by inverse Fourier transforming to the scattering field, we adopt a newly-developed method [8], where the Fourier transformation has been merged into the SBR algorithm. Such a method has been improved and used in the imaging of real-size aircraft. High resolution two-dimensional ISAR images have been obtained. Hence such a method is considered as a general tool for the characterization of large and complex targets.

Keywords

image resolution; radar imaging; radar resolution; synthetic aperture radar; ISAR; SBR; high-resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging; inverse Fourier transforming; radar targets; shooting and bouncing ray method; Aircraft; Electromagnetic scattering; Frequency; High-resolution imaging; Inverse synthetic aperture radar; Optical scattering; Radar imaging; Radar remote sensing; Radar scattering; Synthetic aperture radar; ISAR; SBR; Target characteristics; high resolution; real-size aircraft; scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Millimeter Waves, 2008. GSMM 2008. Global Symposium on

Conference_Location

Nanjing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1885-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1886-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GSMM.2008.4534668

Filename

4534668