Bistatic ISAR imaging incorporating interferometric 3-D imaging technique

Abstract

Bistatic inverse synthetic aperture radar (BiISAR) imaging provides complementary information to monostatic ISAR imaging. A suggestion that the conventional bistatic ISAR can be replaced by an equivalent monostatic radar is shown to be inadequate in this paper. We prove that the BiISAR image is a sheared version of the projection of the target on the range-Doppler plane. A bistatic interferometric radar configuration is proposed to correct this distortion and to form 3-D image. Simulation results have validated our analysis and shown the viability of the proposed 3-D imaging algorithm. © 1980-2012 IEEE.