Abstract
Deconvolution techniques provide efficient implementations for super-resolution imaging for forward-looking scanning radar. However, deconvolution is normally an ill-posed problem, and the solution is extremely sensitive to noise. From a statistical perspective, maximum likelihood (ML) methods are able to condition the ill-posed problem into a well-posed one. Nevertheless, traditional ML methods only consider the amplitude of the echo and by ignoring the phase that do not adequately model the radar imaging system. In this letter, an I/Q-channel modeling ML method is proposed for forward-looking scanning radar. First, the probability model of the echo is deduced by jointly considering noise in the I and Q channels. Then, a probability density function of the received data is deduced and used to formulate the likelihood function. Finally, the targets can be precisely estimated by maximizing this likelihood function. The results of simulations and experiments are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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