This application discloses a SAR imaging method for sea surface ship targets based on inverted conjugate-frequency modulated Z-transform and maximum likelihood
estimation, belonging to the field of
radar target
imaging technology. The method includes: establishing a geometric motion model of the ship target based on its motion; calculating a range-
time domain echo signal model based on the geometric motion model; adaptively extracting the
echo signal from the
echo signal model based on the inverted conjugate-frequency modulated Z-transform; establishing a linear observation equation for
phase error using the echo
signal to optimally estimate the two-dimensional spatially varied
phase error parameters; constructing a compensation function using the optimally estimated two-dimensional spatially varied
phase error parameters and performing adaptive iteration based on bandwidth contraction to transform the iterated
target signal from the
time domain to the
image domain, obtaining the final imaging result. This application can effectively eliminate complex two-dimensional spatially varied defocus, improving
image resolution and focusing quality.