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Approach to joint translational and rotational phase auto-focusing

ZHANG Yuhong1;XING Mengdao1,2   

  1. (1. National Key Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China;
    2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2015-07-09 Online:2016-10-20 Published:2016-12-02
  • Contact: ZHANG Yuhong E-mail:xiaoshan198717@163.com

Abstract:

In high-resolution inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging, the rotational motion of the targets tends to introduce the time-variant Doppler modulation in the echo, which acts as the range-variant phase errors in phase history. Moreover, the performance of translational phase error compensation may be dramatically degraded without properly considering the range-variant phase errors. In this paper, an approach to joint translational and rotational phase auto-focusing is proposed. In the procedure, the joint phase error correction is modeled as range-invariant and range-variant phase errors using a metric of minimum entropy. Then the minimum-entropy optimization is solved by employing a coordinate descend method based on the quasi-Newton solver. Finally, experiment based on simulated data is performed to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Key words: inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), joint phase error correction, minimum entropy, coordinate descend method