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Inverse synthetic aperture ladar (ISAL) is analogous to the inverse synthetic aperture radar but works at frequency 104–5 times higher. A method is proposed to process the ISAL data with stepped-frequency continuous waveform (SFCW). Due to the short wavelength used for ISAL and the relatively long transmission of the SFCW, the motion during the transmission and the relative range shift between adjacent sub-band chirps must be both taken into account while performing the bandwidth synthesis and imaging. An analytic signal model was derived to address this problem. In the proposed model, three additional terms, named the bulk range walk term, the stepped phase error term and the additional range shift, were formulated in ISAL imaging with SFCW for the first time. Based on the signal model, an effective method was proposed to coherently synthesise all the sub-band echoes and then focus the ISAL image. Experimental result was shown and the focused image of an airplane model demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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