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Joint Motion Estimation and Target-Specific Compensation for Simultaneous Inverse SAR Imaging of Dense Fixed-Wing UAV Swarms with Overlapping High-Resolution Range Profiles

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Dense fixed-wing UAV swarms can produce overlapping HRRPs, for which echo separation may truncate extended-target responses and propagate reconstruction errors. This paper proposes an ICWE + SPMP + FWDC framework for simultaneous multi-target ISAR imaging. ICWE extracts fixed windows under multi-target masking. SPMP jointly estimates initial range cell locations and radial motion parameters through structured trajectory matching and search-space peeling. FWDC compensates the original mixed echo for each target and coherently combines the compensated components retained by their associated windows. The framework couples target-wise motion estimation with simultaneous focusing of overlapping targets. Experiments using ideal scattering center and electromagnetic simulation data demonstrate comparable visual focusing to the comparison methods under the evaluated low-SNR conditions with HRRP overlap, with less parameter estimation time and lower compensation cost. The results support a model-driven approach to simultaneous imaging without reconstructing individual target echoes.

Source: Remote Sensing

DOI: 10.3390/rs18213679

Authors: Yuhan Hong, Jing Sheng, Jier Wang, Zhenmiao Deng

Institution: Sun Yat-sen University

Language: English

Topic: Advanced SAR Imaging Techniques

Subfield: Aerospace Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $3,258

Funder: National Natural Science Foundation of China