Research Into Sar Imaging of Moving Ship Target Based on Isar Technology

The ship targets affected by sea conditions and other environment factors have complex non-cooperation movement, which cause serious defocusing phenomena in high resolution space-borne SAR images. In this paper, a novel ISAR-based imaging algorithm for moving ship target is presented. Firstly, the spatial geometric model of spaceborne SAR is given, and the motorial characteristics of moving ship target are analyzed. Then, a novel imaging algorithm is derived, where the range alignment is solved by minimum information entropy criterion, and the accurate focusing is achieved through inverse SAR (ISAR) processing. Experiments based on the simulation and real data of TerraSAR-X are performed to validate the presented algorithm.