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In the target detection stage, the sub-band STAP is introduced to improve the robustness of clutter suppression and to enhance the target output power with the decreased range resolution, by which the coarse estimation of target range-Doppler (R-D) location is obtained as the prior knowledge. In the following target imaging stage, the ISAR imaging is applied in the localized R-D zone surrounding with the target location. However, it is difficult to directly apply ISAR imaging with the conventional R-D algorithm because the slow-moving maritime target cannot be separated from the clutter interference in the Doppler frequency dimension. In this regard, the full-band STAP is applied in the R-D two-dimensional frequency domain for the simultaneous clutter suppression and high-resolution ISAR imaging, in which the envelope alignment and phase compensation are achieved by adaptive match filtering with the target Doppler frequency coarse estimation. Moreover, the reduced-dimension STAP applied in the target-surrounded localized Doppler frequency zone gives facilities for alleviating the computation burden. Simulation results corroborate the effectiveness of the proposed method.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14010193","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,9]],"date-time":"2022-01-09T23:06:15Z","timestamp":1641769575000},"page":"193","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["An Efficient Maritime Target Joint Detection and Imaging Method with Airborne ISAR System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Haodong","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Guisheng","family":"Liao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1865-6214","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jingwei","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lan","family":"Lan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi\u2019an 710071, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"141","DOI":"10.1109\/TIP.2009.2032892","article-title":"ISAR imaging of maneuvering targets based on the range centroid Doppler technique","volume":"19","author":"Lv","year":"2010","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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