Airborne high-resolution ISAR imaging of ship targets at sea

Author

Hajduch, G. ; Caillec, J. M Le ; Garello, R.

Author_Institution

Dept. Image et Traitement de l´´Inf., GET-ENST Bretagne, Brest, France

Volume

40

Issue

1

fYear

2004

fDate

1/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

378

Lastpage

384

Abstract

We address the problem of airborne high resolution two-dimensional inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) side-view imaging of ship targets. Using a simple model of the ship motions avoids the use of advanced joint-time frequency (JTF) transforms. A robust processing scheme including motion estimation and correction, optimal processing time and duration estimation and target shape extraction are developed. We stress the fact that the robustness of this processing leads to a single ISAR image analysis and that no merging of data from a set of radar images is necessary.

Keywords

Doppler radar; airborne radar; marine radar; motion estimation; radar imaging; radar target recognition; ships; synthetic aperture radar; airborne radar; airborne synthetic aperture radar; duration estimation; high-resolution ISAR imaging; motion correction; motion estimation; optimal processing time; pitch motions; range-Doppler images; robust processing scheme; roll motions; ship motions model; ship targets at sea; single image analysis; target shape extraction; two-dimensional side-view imaging; yaw motions; Data mining; Frequency; High-resolution imaging; Image resolution; Inverse synthetic aperture radar; Marine vehicles; Motion estimation; Robustness; Shape; Stress;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TAES.2004.1292177

Filename

1292177