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It can be applied to the surveillance of ship targets on the sea and is gradually gaining an increasing amount of attention. However, for ship targets with complex motions on the sea surface, such as maneuvering targets or ship targets under high sea conditions, the high-order Doppler frequency of the scattering points is always spatial variation (related to the spatial position of scattering points), which poses a considerable challenge for the imaging of maritime ship targets in BiSAR. To resolve this problem, a BiSAR maritime ship target imaging algorithm based on cubic phase time-scaled transformation is proposed in this paper. First, through pre-processing of echo such as Doppler prefiltering and keystone transform, the translation compensation of the BiSAR maritime ship target is completed, and the scattering point energy is corrected to within one range unit. Then, the azimuth signal is modeled as a multi-component cubic phase signal. Based on the proposed cubic phase time-scaled transformation, the Doppler centroid, frequency rate, and third-order frequency of scattering points are estimated. Eventually, the BiSAR imaging of maritime ship targets is realized. This algorithm has excellent noise immunity and low cross-terms. 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