Maximum likelihood angle extractor in the presence of sea-surface multipath

Abhijit Sinha; W. Dale Blair; Thiagalingam Kirubarajan; Yaakov Bar-Shalom

doi:10.1117/12.478539

7 August 2002 Maximum likelihood angle extractor in the presence of sea-surface multipath

Abhijit Sinha, W. Dale Blair, Thiagalingam Kirubarajan, Yaakov Bar-Shalom

Proceedings Volume 4728, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2002; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.478539
Event: AeroSense 2002, 2002, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In the presence of sea-surface multipath monopulse radar signals from a low elevation target have three alternative paths in addition to the direct (radar-to-target) path due to reflections from the sea surface. The specular reflection causes significant signal fading. The diffuse reflection causes an approximately constant bias to the in-phase component of the monopulse ratio, which is the standard extractor of the direction of arrival (DOA) in the monopulse processing. The diffuse reflection also causes higher standard deviation to the in-phase component of the monopulse ratio. In this paper we propose a maximum likelihood (ML) angle extraction technique for low elevation targets of known average signal strength having a Rayleigh fluctuation. The results show that this method reduces the error of the estimated angle compared to the conventional monopulse ratio estimator. Subsequently, the ML angle extractor is modified for the unknown average signal strength case. This modified angle extractor has only a small performance degradation compared with the known average signal strength case, but it performs much better than the monopulse ratio based estimator. This angle extractor reduces the root mean square error (RMSE) by more than 50% in the signal processing stage when used in a low flying target (sea skimmer) tracking scenario.

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Abhijit Sinha, W. Dale Blair, Thiagalingam Kirubarajan, and Yaakov Bar-Shalom "Maximum likelihood angle extractor in the presence of sea-surface multipath", Proc. SPIE 4728, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2002, (7 August 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.478539

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