{"title":"Families of waveforms with good auto and cross ambiguity properties","authors":"I. Gladkova","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.922966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.922966","url":null,"abstract":"We address the problem of constructing frequency hop pulse trains for use in multiuser radar and sonar systems. We suggest a new construction of a family of frequency hop waveforms with nearly ideal autoambiguity function and low crossambiguity properties across the entire family of waveforms.","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124840389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B. Ballard, Carl Darron, L. Gostin, B. Hudson, J. Kemp, J. Scheer, G. Showman
{"title":"Dominant scatterer identification testing with an integrated X-band radar system","authors":"B. Ballard, Carl Darron, L. Gostin, B. Hudson, J. Kemp, J. Scheer, G. Showman","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.922944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.922944","url":null,"abstract":"Radar return data from airborne jet aircraft were collected and analyzed to determine the presence of consistent, dominant radar returns of point scatterers on aircraft simulating landing conditions. These measurements were performed by integrating two separate X-band radars into one system with the ability to simultaneously track and image aircraft. Selected processed data from both radar systems were analyzed and are presented for the airborne jet aircraft.","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114895617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PEOD: Pade estimated optimum (radar) detector","authors":"E. Jay, J. Ovarlez, D. Declerq, P. Duvaut","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.922989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.922989","url":null,"abstract":"An expression for the optimum non-Gaussian radar detector is derived from the non-Gaussian SIRP model (spherically invariant random process) clutter and a Pade approximation of the characteristic function of the SIRP. The SIRP model is used to perform coherent detection and to modelize the non-Gaussian clutter as a complex Gaussian process whose variance is itself a positive random variable (r.v.). The probability density function (PDF) of the variance characterizes the statistics of the STEP and after performing a Pade approximation of this PDF from reference clutter cells we derive the so-railed Pade estimated optimum (radar) detector (PEOD) without any knowledge about the statistics of the clutter. We evaluate PEOD performance for an unknown target signal embedded in K-distributed clutter and compare it with optimum detector performance (optimum in particular clutter statistics such as Optimum K Detector - OKD - in K-distributed clutter).","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"241 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115256157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation comparison of two selection procedures for detecting the number of signal components","authors":"Shou Zhang, K. Stiefvater","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.922996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.922996","url":null,"abstract":"Chen et al., (2000) developed a multi-step selection procedure to determine the number of signal components in radar measurements. We use Monte Carlo experiments to compare and contrast the performance of this method with the single-step selection procedure proposed by Chen and Wicks (2000). The simulations show that the multi-step selection procedure outperforms the single-step selection procedure.","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122502860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sidelobe reduction through subarray overlapping for wideband arrays","authors":"Ching-tai Lin, Hung Ly","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.922982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.922982","url":null,"abstract":"For wideband arrays, the contiguous subarray architecture using phase shifters at the element level and true time delays at the subarray level results in higher sidelobes due to subarray dispersion and grating-lobe generation. Sidelobe reduction using overlapping subarray architecture is discussed. The architecture is effectively applied to an experimental AMRF-C (Advanced Multifunction RF Concept program) receive system. It is shown that, in addition to aperture weight distribution at different stages, the overlap ratio between subarray aperture size and subarray step size primarily affects the array sidelobe performance. Excellent sidelobe performance is achieved over large bandwidth when the overlap ratio is close to 2 and typical Taylor weight distributions are used at both element and subarray levels.","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127709806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Li Yang, Liang Liwan, Pan Weifeng, Chen Yaqin, Feng Zhenghe
{"title":"Signal processing method for switch antenna array of the FMCW radar","authors":"Li Yang, Liang Liwan, Pan Weifeng, Chen Yaqin, Feng Zhenghe","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.922993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.922993","url":null,"abstract":"The switch antenna array (SAA) is a promising substitute for multi-channel antenna array (MAA) due to its low cost, small volume and high resolution. The current signal processing method is efficient only in the low velocity and low frequency case. A new 2-dimension method is proposed, which is suitable to bearing estimation of moving objects without any restriction on their velocity. This method also enhances the resolution capacity of SAA.","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131076444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance comparison of fast-scan GMTI/STAP architectures","authors":"J.B. Gaffney, G. Guttrich, B. Babu, J. Torres","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.922986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.922986","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a study on multibeam radar architectures to provide wide-area fast-scan ground moving target indicator (GMTI) coverage. The minimum dwell time of a GMTI radar system is often determined by the Doppler processor. The revisit rate can be lowered, while still meeting dwell time constraints, by using multibeam techniques to cover more area in each dwell. The two multibeam techniques examined here are: (1) to spoil the transmit beam with a quadratic phase and digitally beamform on receive; and (2) to break each transmitted pulse into sub-pulses each with different center frequencies, pointed in different directions, and to beamform in the corresponding direction on receive. Space time adaptive processing (STAP) is used with these GMTI architectures to mitigate main beam clutter and to enhance detection of targets in severe interference environments. The antenna sub-arraying, used for beamforming and STAP, generates grating lobes in the receive pattern in multibeam systems. This can degrade performance because grating lobes cannot be suppressed in more than one direction at a time. Two different antenna designs are studied to determine the effect of grating lobes for each of the above fast-scan architectures; non-overlapping (contiguous) sub-arrays and 75 percent overlapping sub-arrays which allows greater control of grating lobes at the cost of greater array complexity. This paper presents signal-to-interference ratio loss (SIRL), probability of detection (P/sub d/) and minimum detectable velocity (mdv) for each system. A narrowband interference source is swept in angle to determine system performance degradation due to the grating lobes.","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"5 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132148764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Statistics of monopulse measurements of Rayleigh targets in the presence of specular and diffuse multipath","authors":"W. Blair, M. Brandt-Pearce","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.923007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.923007","url":null,"abstract":"In tracking of low-elevation targets with a monopulse radar, the presence of reflections from the sea surface causes severe errors in the direction-of-arrival (DOA) measurements of the target. Since the target echoes that are received directly and via the sea surface are unresolved in time and frequency, tracking targets in the presence of sea-surface induced multipath is a special case of tracking unresolved targets. The sea-surface reflection is modeled by a specular (coherent) component and a diffuse (noncoherent) component. The probability density function (pdf) of the measured amplitude of the sum signal and the amplitude-conditioned pdf of the in-phase and quadrature monopulse ratios are given for low-elevation, Rayleigh targets in the presence of sea-surface induced multipath. The means and variances of the monopulse ratios are used to illustrate the effects of diffuse multipath for a notional S-band radar.","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129771841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New results on minimum-PSL binary codes","authors":"G. Coxson, A. Hirschel, M. Cohen","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.922969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.922969","url":null,"abstract":"Cohen et al., (1990), found the lowest-PSL (peak sidelobe level) codes for N/spl les/48 using a search algorithm that exploits two PSL-preserving operations. This note explains how to exploit a third PSL-preserving operation in combination with the first two in a single exhaustive search routine. There is a two-fold payoff: a factor-of-two search speedup and a more efficient representation of the set of optimal codes for a given code length. In addition, the list of minimum PSL values is extended to N/spl les/69. This is achieved by providing examples of PSL=4 codes for each code length N between 49 and 69. It has already been established by exhaustive search that for these code lengths, with the exception of N=51, there are no PSL=3 codes.","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128374904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel threshold optimization for distributed OS-CFAR of multistatic radar systems by using the genetic algorithm","authors":"Weixian Liu, Yilong Lu, J. Fu","doi":"10.1109/NRC.2001.922990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/NRC.2001.922990","url":null,"abstract":"Distributed order statistics constant false alarm rate (OS-CFAR) detection techniques are important for nonstationary observation with varying weak narrowband random signals. However, it is very difficult to choose system parameters to obtain optimal threshold values because of the nonlinear property of the distributed OS-CFAR detection system. This paper provides a novel solution based on an effective and flexible genetic algorithm. Using this approach, all system parameters are directly coded in decimal chromosomes and they can be optimized simultaneously. The simulation results show that using the proposed approach one can achieve better performances than the reported methods and results. Furthermore, our method can also be used for more general nonhomogeneous situations with different fusion rules.","PeriodicalId":214828,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE Radar Conference (Cat. No.01CH37200)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130142700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}