Traditionally, inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging and target tracking are two separate and independent processes. ISAR imaging is usually achieved after data collecting and tracking for a long time, resulting in the problems of low imaging efficiency, information loss, and probing resource allocation difficulty. In this article, we proposed an integration method of tracking and imaging with wideband radar by constructing the relation among signal, data, and image domains, which can realize accurate tracking and high data-rate imaging at the same time. In this integrated imaging and tracking method, a complex-valued reference high-resolution range profile (HRRP) is generated and predicted by exploiting the relation among range-Doppler image, echo in time domain, and target’s motion state. Then, a Bayes estimation model is built to extract range phase error between the predicted HRRP and the real-measured HRRP, and the Kalman filter can update the motion state. In addition, in order to increase the efficiency, the decentralized Kalman filter is also introduced to realize the subaperture parallel processing and data fusion in this article. Finally, the sequential motion compensation is carried out to realize accurate motion compensation and sequential imaging. The simulated and real-measured data confirm the proposed algorithm’s robust imaging and tracking performance. Experimental results show that the proposed method has excellent efficiency and can simultaneously realize sequential imaging and accurate tracking.


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    Title :

    Integrated Tracking and ISAR Imaging Using an Integrated Kalman Filter With Wideband Radar


    Contributors:
    Wei, Shaopeng (author) / Zhang, Lei (author) / Liu, Hongwei (author)


    Publication date :

    2022-10-01


    Size :

    7213882 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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