Micro-motion feature extraction of target in inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging with sparse aperture

Micro-motion features are very useful for target recognition in inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR). In this paper, we propose an effective algorithm for micro-motion feature extraction in ISAR imaging with sparse aperture. The micro-Doppler effect induced by rotational micro-motion in ISAR with sparse aperture is analysed first, and then an improved four-parameter Hough transform and an Orthogonal matching pursuit decomposition method are proposed to extract the micro-motion parameters, such as rotation rate and radius. Simulations are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.