High precision phase-domain radial velocity estimation for wideband radar systems

Radial velocity estimation used in wide-band radar systems is investigated.By analyzing the signal of cross-correlation output of adjacent echoes,it is found that the frequency and phase of the cross-correlation output are related to the target’s radial velocity.Since the precision of the phase estimation is higher than that of the frequency,a phase-based velocity estimator is proposed.However,the ambiguity problem exists in the phase estimators,and thus the estimation of the cross-correlation of adjacent echoes(CCAE)is used to calculate the ambiguity number.The root-mean-square-error(RMSE)of the proposed estimator is derived.Simulation results show that the performance of the proposed method is better than that of the frequency-based estimator.