Three-dimensional Interferometric Imaging and Micro-motion Feature Extraction of Rotating Space Targets Based on Narrowband Radar

Inspired by the idea of multi-antenna interferometric processing in Interferometric Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (InISAR), by utilizing an L-shaped three-antenna imaging model, a Three-Dimensional (3-D) interferometric imaging and micro-motion feature extraction method for rotating space targets is proposed. Based on the integration of micro-Doppler (m-D) effect theory and multi-antenna interferometry processing technology, the m-D curves corresponding to different scatterers are obtained on the time-frequency plane and separated via Viterbi algorithm effectively, and then the projected coordinates of scatterers along the direction of baselines are reconstructed by interferometric processing. The height information of scatterers is solved by ellipse fitting, and 3-D imaging for the rotating space target is realized. Meanwhile, some 3-D micro-motion features are exactly extracted during imaging. Simulation results validate the effectiveness and the robustness of the method.