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However, moving ships appear defocused in SAR images, which seriously affects the classification and identification of ships. Considering the three-dimensional (3-D) rotational motions (roll, pitch, and yaw) of the navigating ship, a novel method for refocusing moving ships in SAR images based on inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) technique is proposed. First, a rectangular window is used to extract the defocused ship subimage. Next, the subimage is transformed into the ISAR equivalent echo domain, and the range migration and phase error caused by the identical movement of all ship scatterers are compensated. Then, the optimal imaging time can be selected by the maximum image contrast search method. Finally, the iterative adaptive approach (IAA) is used to obtain the image with high resolution. This method has satisfactory imaging performance in both azimuth resolution and image focus, and the amount of calculation is small due to the processing of subimages. 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