The invention discloses a two-dimensional ISRA imaging method of an object with micro rotation in the air. The method comprises the following steps that: (1), a
radar matriculates an ISAR echo; (2), translation compensation is carried out; (3),
time frequency distribution map is drafted; (4),
micro doppler distance units are determined; (5), echo separation of a distance unit; (6), it is determined whether all distance unit have been traversed; (7), a distance-doppler method is used to carry out imaging on a
rigid body echo; and (8), imaging is carried out on a rotary part echo. According to the invention, a
low frequency modulation rate matched filtering method is employed to carry out echo separation, so that an adaptive chirplet
decomposition imaging method's disadvantages including large calculated amount, high time consumption and insufficience of real-time property are overcome; therefore, the method has advantages of simple realization, high efficient and high real-time property. According to the invention, an I-
Radon conversion is employed to carry out imaging on a rotary part; therefore, defects of an EHT
algorithm are overcome, wherein the defects include high image sidelobe of a rotary object, low precision of
estimation position and inaccuracy of object identification; and the method has advantages of
good image focusing, high position
estimation precision and accurate object identification.