Narrowband radar imaging for precessional targets with specular scattering

Yuling Liu; Xizhang Wei; Bo Peng

doi:10.1117/1.JRS.10.045008

20 October 2016 Narrowband radar imaging for precessional targets with specular scattering

Yuling Liu, Xizhang Wei, Bo Peng

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Journal of Applied Remote Sensing, Vol. 10, Issue 4, 045008 (October 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.10.045008

Abstract

Narrowband radar imaging algorithms based on the micro-Doppler (m-D) characteristics of precessional targets will lose efficacy since specular scattering makes the spectrogram discontinuous and unrecognizable. Specular scattering occurs under the condition that the incident angle of wave is perpendicular to the target surface. To image the precessional target under specular scattering, we propose a narrowband imaging algorithm via complex-valued empirical-mode decomposition-time frequency distribution-general Radon transform (CEMD-TFD-GRT) after analyzing the m-D characteristics of specular scattering centers. The CEMD first decomposes the echo into several components according to their spectrums varying from high to low so that the Doppler spectrums suppressed by the specular scattering can be recognized. Then, TFD-GRT is used to extract the parameters of m-D curves from which the positions of scattering centers can be reconstructed. In addition, the computation complexity of CEMD-TFD-GRT is analyzed and the Cramer–Rao low bounds for the coordinates estimation are derived. The experiment results with anechoic chamber data demonstrate that the scattering centers of precessional targets can be imaged with the proposed algorithm even when specular scattering occurs. The noise influence on the proposed algorithm is also presented with the experiments.

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Yuling Liu, Xizhang Wei, and Bo Peng "Narrowband radar imaging for precessional targets with specular scattering," Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 10(4), 045008 (20 October 2016). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.10.045008

Published: 20 October 2016

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Scattering

Radar imaging

Detection and tracking algorithms

Doppler effect

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Time-frequency analysis

Data modeling

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