Electronics and Electrical Engineering and Control

3D imaging of passive squint InISAR using target-borne illuminator of opportunity

  • Jianing JIN ,
  • Ling WANG ,
  • Rui GONG ,
  • Daiyin ZHU
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  • 1.Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics,Ministry of Education,Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,Nanjing 210016,China
    2.School of Computer and Artificial Intelligence,Hefei Normal University,Hefei 230601,China

Received date: 2024-07-23

  Revised date: 2024-09-18

  Accepted date: 2024-12-13

  Online published: 2024-12-23

Abstract

Passive radar has the advantages such as anti-interference, good concealment, low cost, etc. Compared to other passive radar system configurations, the passive radar technology that utilizes the target-borne Illuminator of Opportunity (IO) has stronger reflection signals due to closer distance between the target and the IO, making it easier to achieve target detection. So far, the passive ISAR imaging using-target borne IO has been extended to 3D InISAR imaging. However, when InISAR imaging operates in the squint-looking mode, the obtained 3D images will be distorted, and accurate 3D reconstruction results cannot be obtained. To solve this problem, a passive InISAR 3D imaging method that is suitable for the squint-looking mode is proposed. Coordinate transformation and Nonlinear Least Squares (NLS) are used to estimate the target’s 3D coordinate information in the imaging coordinate system from the distance information of the 2D ISAR image and the interferometric phases that both contain the target’s 3D coordinate information. Afterwards, coordinate transformation is performed again to obtain the 3D coordinate information of the target in the target body coordinate system, achieving 3D reconstruction of the target without squint-looking distortion. Simulation experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed passive squint InISAR 3D imaging method, which can achieve correction of squint-looking distortion.

Cite this article

Jianing JIN , Ling WANG , Rui GONG , Daiyin ZHU . 3D imaging of passive squint InISAR using target-borne illuminator of opportunity[J]. ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA, 2025 , 46(8) : 330982 -330982 . DOI: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2024.30982

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