Phase correction may seriously affect the ultimate focusing and imaging quality of inverse synthetic aperture radar(ISAR).Due to the explicit algorithm principle and moderate computation amount
Doppler centroid tracking(DCT)method is a well-used phase correction method of ISAR.However
the performance of DCT is normally unsatisfactory when the target has strong scatterers.Based on the analysis and comparison of existing methods
the image-domain balancing is proposed to modify DCT method in this paper.By using the simple operators of balancing and feedback
the proposed method may dramatically reduce the effect of strong scatterers and improve the robustness and the ultimate imaging quality.Finally
the performance analysis and imaging results of several kinds of real target are also provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.