The invention relates to a meshless
azimuth super-resolution sparse aperture ISAR (
inverse synthetic aperture radar) imaging method and a meshless
azimuth super-resolution sparse aperture ISAR imaging
system, which are used for performing one-dimensional
imaging processing on all effective distance units of received echo to obtain a super-resolution one-dimensional
azimuth image of a target and further obtain a super-resolution ISAR image of the target. Sparse representation of missing azimuth echoes in a single distance unit is established based on a meshless
compressed sensing framework, super-resolution one-dimensional azimuth imaging is modeled into an underdetermined inverse problem based on OANM and solved through a
fast algorithm, and after a positive semidefinite
Toeplitz matrix and an
echo signal of the azimuth echoes of the distance unit are reconstructed, the sparse representation of the missing azimuth echoes in the distance unit is obtained. Vandermonde
decomposition is carried out on the reconstructed
Toeplitz matrix to obtain a super-resolution one-dimensional azimuth image, and a super-resolution ISAR image with a complete target is drawn, so that the technical effects of avoiding an off-grid error, being not constrained by a minimum atomic distance and improving the ISAR
image quality under sparse aperture and short aperture
radar observation conditions are achieved.