Image quality analysis and improvement of Ladar reflective tomography for space object recognition

Some problems in the application of Ladar reflective tomography for space object recognition are studied in this work. An analytic target model is adopted to investigate the image reconstruction properties with limited relative angle range, which are useful to verify the target shape from the incomplete image, analyze the shadowing effect of the target and design the satellite payloads against recognition via reflective tomography approach. We proposed an iterative maximum likelihood method basing on Bayesian theory, which can effectively compress the pulse width and greatly improve the image resolution of incoherent LRT system without loss of signal to noise ratio.