Vessel fusion tracking with a dual-frequency high-frequency surface wave radar and calibrated by an automatic identification system

High-frequency surface wave radar（HFSWR） and automatic identification system（AIS） are the two most important sensors used for vessel tracking.The HFSWR can be applied to tracking all vessels in a detection area,while the AIS is usually used to verify the information of cooperative vessels.Because of interference from sea clutter,employing single-frequency HFSWR for vessel tracking may obscure vessels located in the blind zones of Bragg peaks.Analyzing changes in the detection frequencies constitutes an effective method for addressing this deficiency.A solution consisting of vessel fusion tracking is proposed using dual-frequency HFSWR data calibrated by the AIS.Since different systematic biases exist between HFSWR frequency measurements and AIS measurements,AIS information is used to estimate and correct the HFSWR systematic biases at each frequency.First,AIS point measurements for cooperative vessels are associated with the HFSWR measurements using a JVC assignment algorithm.From the association results of the cooperative vessels,the systematic biases in the dualfrequency HFSWR data are estimated and corrected.Then,based on the corrected dual-frequency HFSWR data,the vessels are tracked using a dual-frequency fusion joint probabilistic data association（JPDA）-unscented Kalman filter（UKF） algorithm.Experimental results using real-life detection data show that the proposed method is efficient at tracking vessels in real time and can improve the tracking capability and accuracy compared with tracking processes involving single-frequency data.

基于多帧聚类的紧凑型HFSWR虚假点迹识别方法

紧凑型高频地波雷达发射功率低,目标检测时信噪比低、虚警率高,会产生大量虚假点迹,影响后续目标跟踪性能。为了滤除虚假点迹,利用目标的运动特性,提出了一种多帧聚类与极限学习机分类两级级联的虚假点迹识别方法。首先,利用基于最优邻域尺寸的多帧聚类方法,将连续多帧中与待识别点迹属于同一潜在目标的点迹聚类成簇。然后,计算簇内待识别点迹与其相邻帧内点迹的距离-多普勒速度的差分值,以其为特征利用极限学习机辨识虚假点迹。实验结果表明,所提方法能够准确将属于同一目标的点迹聚类,虚假点迹识别率达到95%。

基于SET-CNN的紧凑型地波雷达弱目标检测方法

紧凑型高频地波雷达发射功率较低且采用小孔径阵列,导致雷达回波中的弱目标增多,进而引起基于距离-多普勒谱的目标检测方法性能降低,目标探测能力减弱。为提高紧凑型地波雷达对弱目标的检测性能,本文提出一种基于同步提取变换-卷积神经网络(Synchroextracting Transform-Convolutional Neural Network,SET-CNN)的紧凑型地波雷达弱目标检测方法:首先在时频谱处理中,利用信噪比方法抑制信号中的海杂波,减少杂波时频脊线对目标检测的影响;然后基于SET时频谱构建时频脊线样本数据库,再通过卷积神经网络进行时频脊线分类,并基于分类结果的后处理完成船只目标检测。通过仿真和实测数据验证提出的目标检测方法,结果表明,本文提出的方法能够有效检测到弱目标,提高紧凑型地波雷达的目标检测性能。

紧凑型高频地波雷达目标探测研究进展

高频地波雷达是海上船只目标大范围连续探测的主要手段,与大型阵列雷达相比,紧凑型地波雷达具有占用场地小、功耗低、架设和维护方便等优点。本文首先概述了高频地波雷达目标探测技术的国内外研究状况,然后通过阐述紧凑型地波雷达目标探测技术的研究进展,分析紧凑型地波雷达目标探测中难点和急需解决的问题,给出紧凑型地波雷达目标探测的新方案。该方案利用检测跟踪一体化方法解决单方位紧凑型地波雷达弱信号检测困难的问题,利用多方位目标航迹融合确定精确目标航迹,能够降低目标航迹丢失概率,提高目标探测精度。最后总结了紧凑型地波雷达目标探测的发展趋势和研究重点。