ISAR cross-range scaling via joint estimation of rotation center and velocity

Particle swarm optimization coupled with exhaustive search method (PSO-ESM) is proposed for inverse synthetic aperture radar cross-range scaling (CRS). Robust scatterers against angular scintillation are extracted using scale-invariant feature transform, and locations of the extracted scatterers are applied to PSO-ESM that estimate not only rotation center (RC), but also rotation velocity (RV). In simulations, it was observed that PSO-ESM can perform robust CRS owing to the joint estimation of RC and RV.