An Improved Space Debris ISAR Imaging Algorithm

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According to the Characteristics of space debris, single-range matching filtering (SRMF) can be used for space debris inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging. Combined SRMF and Coherent CLEAN algorithm can effectively solve high sidelobes problem brought by Fourier transform. However, when the SNR is low, the position error of scattering centers extracted by SRMF-CLEAN is big, and even some weak scatterings can’t be extracted. This paper uses Sequence CLEAN instead of Coherent CLEAN to availably solve the above problems. The experiment results confirm the validness of the proposed algorithm.

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