Clutter suppression for hypersonic vehicle-borne radar with frequency diverse array

The seriously range-ambiguous clutter is one of the main problems in clutter suppression for hypersonic vehicle-borne forward-looking radar. An approach based on the frequency diverse array (FDA) technique is proposed to mitigate the range ambiguous clutter. The frequency increment is designed to distinguish the clutter at ambiguous ranges and suppress the clutter by using a subspace projection algorithm. On the platform with high altitude or limited array antennas, the proposed method performs better for its independence of the elevation degrees-of-freedom (DOF). Finally, simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

CLUTTER SUPPRESSION METHOD IN GPR USING PARTICLE CLUSTERING

In this paper, a novel clutter suppression method in Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is proposed. Time segments of hill are represented by their corresponding particle in B-scan. Those particles in B-scan are clustered to represent reflectors (such as buried targets, air-soil interface). The clusters of buried target have a particle sequence with single peak. Therefore, if the particles donot belong to the cluster of buried target, time segment they represent will be suppressed. Experimental results and simulation are provided to demonstrate that the new algorithm outperforms existing approaches.

Short-range clutter suppression method combining oblique projection and interpolation in airborne CFA radar

The airborne conformal array(CFA)radar's clutter ridges are range-modulated,which result in a bias in the estimation of the clutter covariance matrix(CCM)of the cell under test(CUT),further,reducing the clutter suppression performance of the airborne CFA radar.The clutter ridges can be effectively compensated by the space-time separation interpolation(STSINT)method,which costs less computation than the space-time interpolation(STINT)method,but the performance of interpolation algorithms is seriously affected by the short-range clutter,especially near the platform height.Location distributions of CFA are free,which yields serious impact that range spaces of steering vector matrices are non-orthogonal complement and even no longer disjoint.Further,a new method is proposed that the shortrange clutter is pre-processed by oblique projection with the intersected range spaces(OPIRS),and then clutter data after being pre-processed are compensated to the desired range bin through the STSINT method.The OPIRS also has good compatibility and can be used in combination with many existing methods.At the same time,oblique projectors of OPIRS can be obtained in advance,so the proposed method has almost the same computational load as the traditional compensation method.In addition,the proposed method can perform well when the channel error exists.Computer simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Clutter Suppression Method in GPR Using the Convergence of Matrix Entropy

A novel clutter suppression method in ground penetrating radar （GPR） is proposed. The preliminary result is obtained by using target resolution improved processing （TRIP）. The preliminary result will be used as an initial input for TRIP iteration. All TRIP iteration steps are the adaptive linear combination of the previous TRIP result and the preliminary result. This adaptive combination strategy can balance clutter suppression and target information protection, which is considered as a troublesome contradiction and a chronic problem in clutter suppression research. When the matrix entropy of iteration result converges, the algorithm can achieve a good result both in clutter suppression and target protection. Experimental results demonstrate that the new algorithm outperforms the existing approaches.

Nonuniform Three-dimensional Configuration Distributed SAR Signal Reconstruction Clutter Suppression

This paper deals with the problem of clutter suppression in spaceborne distributed synthetic aperture radar （D-SAR） with nonuniform three-dimensional （3D） configuration geometry. In order to make a breakthrough of the configuration limitation of the traditional space time adaptive processing （STAP） based on uniform array and improve the inhomogeneous clutter suppres- sion performance, this paper considers signal reconstrtiction technique using array interpolation to process the D-SAR signal. An array interpolation signal reconstruction method based on pitching-partition is derived then a signal reconstruction 3D-STAP clutter suppression method applied to nonuniform 3D configuration is proposed. In particular, the proposed method is compared with conventional methods and the performance analysis is carried out based on simulations. The improvement factor （IF） for clutter suppression is imported and reported as a benchmark on the clutter suppression effect.

A convolutional neural network based approach to sea clutter suppression for small boat detection

Current methods for radar target detection usually work on the basis of high signal-to-clutter ratios.In this paper we propose a novel convolutional neural network based dual-activated clutter suppression algorithm,to solve the problem caused by low signal-to-clutter ratios in actual situations on the sea surface.Dual activation has two steps.First,we multiply the activated weights of the last dense layer with the activated feature maps from the upsample layer.Through this,we can obtain the class activation maps(CAMs),which correspond to the positive region of the sea clutter.Second,we obtain the suppression coefficients by mapping the CAM inversely to the sea clutter spectrum.Then,we obtain the activated range-Doppler maps by multiplying the coefficients with the raw range-Doppler maps.In addition,we propose a sampling-based data augmentation method and an effective multiclass coding method to improve the prediction accuracy.Measurement on real datasets verified the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Radar Sea Clutter Suppression and Target Indication with a Spatial Tracking Filter

It is an important issue to study sea clutter suppression because it could interfere with the detection of targets above the sea surface severely. Spatial spectrum analyses show that the majority of sea clutter has low-frequency characteristics, compared to the high-frequency characteristics of the targets. This paper proposes a frequency-based spatial tracking filter to suppress sea clutter to facilitate targets identification. Experimental results show that the signal-to-clutter ratio can increase by more than 10 dB after filtering and the algorithm is feasible for practical use. In addition, the filtering equation can be optimized to maximize the signal-to-clutter ratio improvement. The equation parameters can also be adjusted to give a proper cut-off frequency for different targets and clutter.

Improved Multistage Wiener Filters in Nonhomogeneous Clutter Environments

A new method combining space-time preprocessing with multistage Wiener filters（STPMWF）is proposed to improve the performance of space-time adaptive processing（STAP）in nonhomogeneous clutter scenario.The new scheme only requires the data from the primary range bin,thus it can suppress discrete interferers efficiently,without calculating the inverse of covariance matrix.Comparing to the original MWF approach,the proposed scheme can be regarded as practical solutions for robust and effective STAP of nonhomogeneous radar data.The theoretical analysis shows that our STPMWF is simple in implementation and fast in convergence.The numeric results by using simulated data exhibit a good agreement with the proposed theory.

System Design and Signal Processing for Frequency Diverse Array Radar

Frequency diverse array(FDA)radar has been studied for more than 15 years and has attracted a lot of attention due to its potential advantages over the well-known phased array radar.The representative feature of FDA is range-angle-time-dependent transmit beampattern and its underlying properties are continuously revealed in the research.The formulation and exploitation of the transmit diversity with a frequency increment is the fundamental principle,which brings extra degrees-of-freedom(DOFs)in the transmit dimension.As the FDA radar carries additional information in range,it provides more flexibility in signal processing and also brings in new technical issues.This article overviews the state-of-the-art in FDA radar area and its applications,mainly based on the progress in our group.There are two main catalogs in FDA radar area,namely coherent FDA and FDA-MIMO(multiple-input multiple-output)radars.Potential applications including target parameter estimation,ambiguous clutter suppression,and deceptive jammer suppression are discussed.

IMPROVED DOPPLER WARPING METHOD FOR AIRBORNE RADAR WITH NON-SIDELOOKING ARRAY

Traditional range-dependency compensation space time adaptive processing(STAP)methods usually involve aligning the clutter spectrums in a certain point to reduce the clutter non-homogeneity.A novel compensation STAP method is proposed as an improved Doppler warping(DW)method for airborne radar with non-sidelooking radar.This method facilitates DW method to bring clutter spectrum of different range gates together in the mainlobe and subsequently compensation to accomplish space angle of different range gates alignment at multiple Doppler bins.Simulation results show that the proposed method can further reduce the clutter non-homogeneity of non-sidelooking array and significantly outperform traditional algorithms with only a little increase of the computation load.

Experimental Research of Dual-Polarization Passive Radar Based on DTTB Signal

The passive radar is a hot research topic. A multi-channel wideband passive radar experimental system is designed and the digital television terrestrial broadcasting (DTTB) signal is chosen to carry out the target detection experiment of civil aviation aircraft. The polarization and spatial filtering methods are used to solve the strong direct path interference suppression problems brought by the receiving system location;combined with the characteristics of DTTB signal, the block length selection interval in the block batch processing method for range-Doppler images calculation is given;the clutter suppression performance is compared through the experimental data receiving from different bistatic polarization channels, the conclusion is different from the monostatic radar and it can guide the passive radar experiment.

Application of Scan-to-Scan Integration-Correlation to Detection of Small Fast-Moving Target on Sea Surface

Conventional scan-to-scan integration correlation （SIC） algorithms can detect small and stationary targets. However, they are ineffective in detecting small and fast-moving targets. This paper presents an improved SIC algorithm together with clutter suppression measures that remove or decrease sea clutter. The algorithm divides the scan-to-scan integration （SI） into two branches, one provides optimum clutter attenuation by means of SI weighting while the other ensures that targets are detected even if they are fast-moving. Sea clutter suppression can lower detection thre-sholds and, at the same time, increase signal-to-clutter ratio. Simulation results show that the proposed approach greatly improves the detection capability for warship radar.

Krylov subspace method based on data preprocessing technology

The performance of adaptive beamforming techniques is limited by the nonhomogeneous clutter scenario. An augmented Krylov subspace method is proposed, which utilizes only a single snapshot of the data for adaptive processing. The novel algorithm puts together a data preprocessor and adaptive Krylov subspace algorithm, where the data preprocessor suppresses discrete interference and the adaptive Krylov subspace algorithm suppresses homogeneous clutter. The novel method uses a single snapshot of the data received by the array antenna to generate a cancellation matrix that does not contain the signal of interest （SOI） component, thus, it mitigates the problem of highly nonstationary clutter environment and it helps to operate in real-time. The benefit of not requiring the training data comes at the cost of a reduced degree of freedom （DOF） of the system. Simulation illustrates the effectiveness in clutter suppression and adaptive beamforming. The numeric results show good agreement with the proposed theorem.

SAR-GMTI investigation in hybrid along-and cross-track baseline InSAR

A joint-pixel clutter suppression method based on slope compensation is proposed in this paper, In order to eliminate the effect of the terrain interferometric phase caused by the cross-track baseline in hybrid baseline InSAR, the local independent identical distribution of the clutter is satisfied by using the slope compensation technique, and thus the clutter can be suppressed successfully by using the orthogonality of the clutter subspace and the noise subspace. This approach utilizes the information contained in the current pixel as well as in its neighbors, showing robustness to the image coregistration errors. Both the simulated data and the real airborne data are used in proving the validity of the presented approach.