Radar Space-Time Processing for Range-Folded Spread-Doppler Clutter Mitigation by William W. Lee Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University

We developed a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) processing algorithm for airborne/spaceborne ice-sounding radar systems and applied it to data collected in Greenland. By using focused SAR (phase-corrected coherent averaging), we improved along-track resolution by a factor of four and provided a 6-dB processing gain over unfocused SAR (coherent averaging without phase correction) based on a point-...

[1] Refractivity from clutter (RFC) retrieves the radio frequency refractive conditions along a propagation path by inverting the measured radar sea clutter return. In this paper, a real-time RFC technique is proposed called ‘‘Improved Best Fit’’ (IBF). It is based on finding the environment with best fit to one of many precomputed, modeled radar returns for different environments in a database...

Due to the non-contact nature, using Doppler radar sensors to detect vital signs such as heart and respiration rates of a human subject is getting more and more attention. However, the related detection-method research meets lots of challenges due to electromagnetic interferences, clutter and random motion interferences. In this paper, a novel third-order cyclic cummulant (TOCC) detection metho...

The signal returns from radar targets are usually buried in thermal noise and clutter. Target detection is commonly performed by comparing radar returns to an adaptive threshold such that a constant false alarm rate (CFAR) is maintained. The threshold in a CFAR detector is set on a cell by cell basis according to the estimated noise/clutter power, which is determined by processing a group of re...

This study considers an airborne multichannel phase array radar consisting of an analog phase shifter on each channel, where the sum channel (output) is digitised using a single A/D converter. Generally for such a configuration, the array weights are predetermined for each transmit/receive direction and are nonadaptive to the clutter. In order to achieve any adaptivity to the environment, the c...

In this paper we describe software models of CA-CFAR, OS-CFAR and the TM-CFAR detectors in the receiver of the software defined radar. A comparative analysis of these CFAR detector models in terms of detection of radar targets in conditions of real clutter is performed. Software models of CFAR detector are implemented in MATLAB.

We report on a technique for the radar ship signal extraction from contaminated sea clutter. Group normalization (GN) is presented to overcome that conventional wavelet packet coefficients not appropriately represent the strength of signal. The l entropy is extended to l one to improve the performance. The symmetric, complex wavelet packets are used for radar signal processing.

In this work, we present a methodology for fusing high frequency and low frequency radar images. The goal of this system is to nd the strong surface clutter which is common to high and low frequency radar images and to subtract (defuse) this common component from the low frequency image to extract sub-surface information.

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