This paper is proposed to eliminate the negative influence of the Rotational Phase Component (RPC) on the performance of the Doppler Centroid Tracking (DCT) phase compensation method. Firstly, the coherent property between adjacent echo pulses sampled directly in Intermediate Frequency (IF) is analyzed in the paper. Then a coherent phase compensation method is developed to improve the Translational Phase Component (TPC) estimation accuracy of DCT. Compared to the Modified DCT (MDCT) algorithm, the proposed method achieves better phase compensation performance. Experimental results prove the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed strategy.
About author: Chen Zeng-ping (1967-) was born in Fuqing, Fujian province. He received the Ph.D. degree from National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in 1994. Currently, he is a professor of NUDT and the vice director of ATR National Defense Science and Technology Key Lab. His research interests are radar signal processing and automatic target recognition. E-mail: atrchen@sina.com
Zhang Wei-cheng (1982-) was born in Changsha, Hunan province. He is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in ATR Key Laboratory of National University of Defense Technology. His research interests are radar imaging and signal processing. E-mail: zhangweicheng_iet@163.com
Lin Qian-qiang (1983-) was born in Putian, Fujian province. He is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in ATR Key Laboratory of National University of Defense Technology. His research interests are radar data acquisition and signal processing. E-mail: Even_qqlin@163.com
Cite this article:
Chen Zeng-ping,Zhang Wei-cheng,Lin Qian-qiang. A Novel Phase Compensation Method for ISAR Imaging in Wideband Radar (in English)[J]. JOURNAL OF RADARS, 2013, 2(1): 23-29.