Stepped Frequency Imaging Radar Simulation

In this thesis, a technique involving Stepped Frequency and Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) processing have been employed to develop two- dimensional radar images of an aircraft target. Radar returns from prominent scatterers of various parts of the target will be processed and displayed. The processing is a combination of two high-resolution processes: development of a high-range resolution (HRR) profile in slant range using the stepped frequency waveform, and the development of a high-resolution profile in cross-range using the ISAR technique. With these two techniques complementing each other, images of targets' dominant scatterers can be extracted , processed and displayed. With intelligence databases built over time, precise recognition of target type can be identified.Naval Postgraduate School Monterey CA is the author of 'Stepped Frequency Imaging Radar Simulation', published 2000 under ISBN 9781423537526 and ISBN 1423537521.