National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61301212, No.61201459);Aeronautical Science Foundation of China, ASFC (No.20132052030);China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No.2012M511750);Funded by Postgraduate Science Research Program of Jiangsu Province (No.1301027B)
To overcome the deterioration of azimuth resolution caused by errors of monopulse response curve (MRC) in practical processing
this paper proposes an autofocusing algorithm for monopulse imaging technique.By applying iterative steps
this algorithm automatically extracts the echo signals of isolated strong scatterers from the received data
and employs them to accurately estimate the actual MRC.The estimated curve is then used in the procedure of monopulse imaging to autofocus the image in azimuth.As is verified by simulation and experimental results
this algorithm can effectivelyreduce the impact of MRC errors on monopulse imaging and is robust to most of the ground scenes