Detecting the strong scatterers of target with ISAR

Author

She, Zhishun ; Zhu, Zhaoda

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Nanjing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut., China

Volume

2

fYear

1995

fDate

22-26 May 1995

Firstpage

992

Abstract

This paper investigates the problem of detecting the strong scatterers by use of inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR). Three methods are proposed. They are maximal average amplitude, minimal entropy and maximal energy. The proposed methods are compared with the existed approach i.e. minimal variance. We carry out the experiment by processing the live data of Boeing-727 aircraft provided by Prof. B.D. Steinberg. The detection results are given graphically. Based on the detected strongest scatterer of target, we perform the phase compensation of ISAR by the scatterer reference method. The reconstructed image of Boeing-727 is also shown

Keywords

image reconstruction; microwave imaging; minimum entropy methods; radar imaging; synthetic aperture radar; Boeing-727 aircraft; ISAR; inverse synthetic aperture radar; maximal average amplitude; maximal energy; microwave imaging; minimal entropy; phase compensation; reconstructed image; scatterer reference method; strong scatterers; Entropy; Image coding; Image reconstruction; Motion compensation; Phase detection; Power engineering and energy; Radar detection; Radar scattering; Reflectivity; Signal resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1995. NAECON 1995., Proceedings of the IEEE 1995 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

ISSN

0547-3578

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2666-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1995.522059

Filename

522059