Modification of polarization filtering technique in HF ground wave radar

1. INTRODUCTION Skywave disturbance is a major problem for a coastalsurveillance HF surface wave radar that operates in thelower end of HF (2-15MHz). Suppressing the disturb- ance with polarization technique is a new study of HFradar. Though some radar researchers have studied thesubject, there still exist some problems. For example,the singlesample polarization filter1] requires estimat- ing polarization parameters of each sample, but thepolarization extracting method in the paper us…

Modification of polarization filtering technique in HF ground wave radar

The polarization filter using three orthogonal linear polarization antennas can suppress more disturbances than the polarization filter using two orthogonal linear polarization antennas in HF ground wave radar. But the algorithm of the threedimension filter is relatively complicated and not suitable for real-time processing. It can't use linear and nonlinear polarization vector translation technique directly. A modified polarization filter which is simple and has same suppressing ability as the three-dimension polarization filter is given. It only has half parameters of the primary one. Some problems about estimation of polarization parameters and selection of disturbances are discussed. A method of holding the phase of radar backscatter signal constantly is put forward so that unstationary disturbance signal can be processed.