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Multichannel Clutter Modeling, Analysis, and Suppression for Missile-Borne Radar Systems


Abstract:

When a missile-borne radar system works in downward-looking surveillance mode, the broadened ground clutter signal in virtue of platform high-speed motion will be receive...Show More

Abstract:

When a missile-borne radar system works in downward-looking surveillance mode, the broadened ground clutter signal in virtue of platform high-speed motion will be received by the radar receiver, which will cause difficulty in moving target detection and attacking. Unlike airborne and spaceborne platforms, a missile-borne platform exhibits some unique motion characteristics, such as diving, spinning, and coning, causing the clutter space–time distribution property significantly different from those of airborne and spaceborne radar platforms. In addition, the forward target striking requirements make the missile-borne clutter space–time spectrum further exhibit the severe range-dependent property. To deal with these issues, accurate motion modeling of a missile-borne radar platform is first carried out in this article, where the complex platform motions including forward-looking diving, spinning, and coning are considered. Then, the autocorrelation processing combined with iterative adaptive approach is applied to estimate the clutter angle-Doppler center frequencies, so as to effectively realize the clutter nonstationary compensation along spatial and temporal directions. Finally, a time-domain sliding window-based subspace projection method is proposed to achieve the robust clutter suppression. Both simulation and real-measured radar data processing results are presented to validate the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed algorithm.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ( Volume: 58, Issue: 4, August 2022)
Page(s): 3236 - 3260
Date of Publication: 31 January 2022

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