Analysis of the attitude and geometry of space targets with the inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) technique is a significant and difficult task. Most of the existing methods hardly consider the radar observation geometry in the determination of target attitude. This paper proposes a novel approach to estimating the three-dimensional attitude and reconstructing typical component geometry of space targets from an ISAR image sequence. The approach bridges range-Doppler images and target attitude parameters with the accommodation of target trajectory information and the ISAR geometric projection model. By exploring the shape feature within the ISAR sequence, the target attitude and the rectangular component size are estimated through solving an optimization with prior shape constraints. Comparative experiments illustrate the advantages of the proposed method in both feature association and reconstruction feasibility. Moreover, considering practical circumstances, a further analysis is made of the robustness of the proposed algorithm after the attitude estimation experiment.


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    Title :

    Attitude Estimation and Geometry Reconstruction of Satellite Targets Based on ISAR Image Sequence Interpretation


    Contributors:
    Zhou, Yejian (author) / Zhang, Lei (author) / Cao, Yunhe (author) / Wu, Zhenhua (author)


    Publication date :

    2019-08-01


    Size :

    4527106 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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