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Simultaneously, migration through resolution cell (MTRC) under the Doppler ambiguity is unable to be compensated for as a preprocessing. Traditional ISAR imaging methods for maneuvering targets, however, are undesirable to handle the severe deformation and defocusing in the imaging results induced by the Doppler ambiguity and MTRC. In this paper, we propose a novel and effective ISAR imaging method to improve the imaging quality by removing the Doppler ambiguity and compensating for the MTRC. Specifically, we first model the echo as a multi-component cubic phase signal (m-CPS) and design a high-order instantaneous autocorrelation function\u2013generalized scaled Fourier transform (HIAF\u2013GSCFT) to process the echo. This is to estimate the rotational parameters without MTRC compensation. Then, a maximum weighted contrast algorithm is used to remove the Doppler ambiguity, followed by reconstructing the echo. Compared with the existing method, the proposed method can accurately estimate the rotational parameters under the existing MTRCs and achieves a high-quality ISAR image for group targets, with complex maneuvers without Doppler ambiguity. Experiments of simulated and measured datasets validate its effectiveness and robustness for single target and group targets.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14112554","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,31]],"date-time":"2022-05-31T00:25:12Z","timestamp":1653956712000},"page":"2554","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Unambiguous ISAR Imaging Method for Complex Maneuvering Group Targets"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Fengkai","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Air and Missile Defense College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710051, China"}]},{"given":"Darong","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Air and Missile Defense College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710051, China"}]},{"given":"Xinrong","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Science College, Armed Police Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710051, China"}]},{"given":"Cunqian","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Air and Missile Defense College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi\u2019an 710051, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,5,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"141","DOI":"10.1109\/LGRS.2004.824766","article-title":"Migration Through Resolution Cell Compensation in ISAR Imaging","volume":"1","author":"Xing","year":"2004","journal-title":"IEEE Geosci. 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