ISAR using Thomson's multiwindowed adaptive spectrum estimation method

The authors compare two of Thomson's multiwindowed spectral estimation methods to conventional windowed discrete Fourier transform (DFT) methods for generating inverse synthetic-aperture radar (ISAR) images. The compared images are generated from synthetic data and data obtained from the IPIX research radar. The images show that Thomson's adaptive multiwindowed spectral estimation method is superior to the windowed fast Fourier transform (FFT) in generating ISAR images.<>