System compensation for inverse synthetic aperture radar

A system compensation method applied to an inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) with STRETCH processing is presented in this paper. Some of the key issues causing sidelobes in ISAR design are discussed and the simulation and experiment results are given. This method can compensate not only the system distortion but the quadrature nonbalance. The simulation and experiment results demonstrate that this system compensation method is of feasibility and efficiency.<>