Fast pulse Doppler radar processing accounting for range bin migration

Author

Marzetta, Thomas L. ; Martinsen, Elizabeth A. ; Plum, Charles P.

Author_Institution

Nichols Res. Corp., Wakefield, MA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

6/15/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

264

Lastpage

268

Abstract

An airborne pulse Doppler radar depends on a combination of range selectivity and velocity selectivity to detect targets in ground clutter. At a sufficiently high bandwidth the phenomenon of range bin migration occurs, precluding the use of conventional Doppler processing. The product of the range-rate and the coherent integration period exceeds the range resolution. A fast algorithm is introduced. It performs coherent integration/Doppler filtering while explicitly accounting for range bin migration. The fast algorithm is based on an integration along a slanted line in the 2-D frequency domain.

Keywords

Doppler effect; radar clutter; radar systems; signal processing; 2-D frequency domain; Doppler filtering; airborne pulse Doppler radar; bandwidth; coherent integration; coherent integration period; fast algorithm; ground clutter; range bin migration; range resolution; range selectivity; range-rate; target detection; velocity selectivity; Acceleration; Bandwidth; Clutter; Delay effects; Doppler radar; Filtering algorithms; Frequency domain analysis; Meteorological radar; Pulse measurements; Radar detection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 1993., Record of the 1993 IEEE National

Conference_Location

Lynnfield, MA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0934-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRC.1993.270453

Filename

270453