Radar Phase-Modulated Waveform Design for Extended Target Detection

Extended target detection performance can be enhanced by using phase-modulated waveform designs in band-limited radar systems. Unlike waveforms designed for the total energy constraint, phase-modulated waveforms can fully exploit the transmit power in the pulse duration, which is more suitable for practical radar systems. An alternating iterative algorithm was developed to optimize the phase-modulated baseband waveform by maximizing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the receiver filter output. The output SNR increases continuously with the number of iterations and the algorithm is guaranteed to converge. Simulations validate the effectiveness of this approach. The waveforms designed by this method outperform other commonly used waveforms for extended target detection.     

杂波环境下面向扩展目标检测的自适应波形设计方法

为了提高杂波环境下的扩展目标检测性能,提出了一种雷达发射波形的自适应设计方法。建立了参数化模型来表征雷达接收端的观测。根据对回波统计特性的分析,提出了目标冲激响应和杂波协方差的估计方法,并构建了一种广义似然比检测器。为了充分发挥雷达发射机的功率极限,进一步提出了一种相位调制波形的自适应设计方法,使所设计的波形应用在下一次发射时能够抑制杂波的影响,提高目标检测性能。仿真实验结果表明:相比传统雷达系统中广泛采用的固定波形,该自适应波形设计算法能够获得更高的回波信杂噪比,改善了扩展目标的检测性能。