The invention discloses an ISAR (
Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar) range envelope alignment method and
system based on
phase difference, and belongs to the technical field of radars. The method comprises the following steps: sampling echo signals after
pulse compression one by one, estimating and compensating adjacent sampling average
phase change; partitioning
azimuth signals in a distance
frequency domain, respectively adding rectangular windows by taking
zero frequency as a boundary, and sampling in each
azimuth to generate an upper
sideband signal and a lower
sideband signal; performing three-time conjugate multiplication on four adjacent sampled signals to obtain a differential
signal; obtaining an adjacent offset through maximum likelihood
estimation by using the differential signal; aligning the adjacent envelopes according to an
estimation result; and after the aligned envelopes are accumulated, the steps are repeated for
recursion with the next sample, and finally, envelope alignment of all the samples is completed. According to the method, the sub-pixel-level distance envelope alignment precision can be realized without up-sampling and interpolation operations, and the problem of echo generation caused by
amplitude modulation in a traditional amplitude dependent
algorithm is effectively avoided.