For the long-range and high-speed maneuvering space target detection, its performance is constrained by two challenges, the coherent integration loss due to Range migration and Doppler frequency spread, the contradiction between Range Ambiguity, and Doppler bandwidth ambiguity. This paper proposed a novel parameter estimation and integration method to solve the above two issues. Firstly, the waveform diversity technique is used to solve the range ambiguity problem. Then a matched filter bank for high-speed targets that can calculate the range ambiguity number is designed. Next, coherent integration is successfully achieved by estimating the target motion parameters and compensating for the echo signal. Finally, a two-step search strategy is proposed to improve the parameter estimation process, numerical experiments have validated that the complexity of the algorithm is reduced while ensuring the accuracy of the parameter estimation.
Space-borne bistatic radar has stronger viability than monostatic radar. And larger radar cross section (RCS) makes anti-stealth capability of space-borne bistatic radar stronger. However, space-borne bistatic radar is also in down-looking working state, which will suffer serious clutter interference. Since the transmitter and receiver are not placed on the same platforms, bistatic configurations cause clutter characteristics more complicated. It is mainly manifested in resolution spatial variation and tanglesome space-time distribution. In this paper, we first establish the signal model of spaceborne bistatic radar based on satellite-earth relation. Then, we focus on arbitrary orbital plane configuration to study resolution spatial variation and space-time distribution characteristics against bistatic geometric relationships. Last, we adopt the full link evaluation model to evaluate the performance of space-time adaptive processing (STAP) under corresponding bistatic geometric relationships. This paper can provide significant references for system design of space-borne bistatic radar.
Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) has been extended to the distributed space-borne multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system to improve the detection performance. Nevertheless, the transmitting waveforms are not completely orthogonal to each other, resulting in the STAP performance deterioration. In this paper, we established a novel STAP performance analysis model to reveal the influence mechanism of waveform properties. Firstly, the signal model of distributed space-borne radar with hybrid baseline and yaw angle was presented. Then, we derived the characteristic of the clutter covariance matrix for post-Doppler STAP, considering the effect of waveform periodic autocorrelation and cross-correlation sidelobe. Finally, the numerical simulation results, based on indicators of clutter eigenvalue spectrum and output signal-to-noise ratio loss, demonstrated the accuracy of the proposed analysis model. The aforementioned results provide important basis for the design of distributed space-borne MIMO radar system.
KEYWORDS: Signal processing, Signal to noise ratio, Feature extraction, Radar, Synthetic aperture radar, Signal detection, Radar signal processing, Filtering (signal processing), Time-frequency analysis
The fluent ship targets with micro-motion which is caused by oceanic waves leading to defocused images. Due to the large size ship, there is a multi-component echo signal in one range bin, thus it is crucial to extract the micro-Doppler (m-D) features quickly and precisely to refocus the images. This paper puts forward a novel micro-motion feature extraction and estimation method. The method is composed of two steps, and the first step is preprocessing to do the Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT). After that, we propose a new form of synchrosqueezing transform to concentrate the energy spread curves which can be established as a state translation model. Then in the second step, we use the RFS-based Bernoulli filter to estimate the parameters of the multi-component signal. In this step, the method avoids the disturbance of stray points and empty areas so that the m-D parameters can be estimated accurately. The experimental results prove the availability of the proposed method and the accuracy of the estimation of m-D parameters.
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