A comparison of conventional, adaptive and hybrid Doppler processing techniques

Author

Armstrong, B.C.

Author_Institution

Aerotek, CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa

fYear

1992

fDate

9/11/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

127

Lastpage

134

Abstract

The relative performance of several well known Doppler processors is examined under a wide range of clutter conditions. Parameters are chosen to reflect land and sea clutter environments, including possible weather clutter components. Performance measures are discussed, with particular attention to filter-bank processing and M/N detection. The improvement factor of each processor and its loss relative to the optimal filter is evaluated in each clutter scenario. The insertion of MTI cancellers before LP or Hsaio filters for dealing with point clutter is discussed. Conventional AMTI and MTI filters are shown to provide dramatically inferior performance in many clutter environments

Keywords

Doppler effect; adaptive filters; filtering and prediction theory; radar clutter; statistical analysis; Doppler processing techniques; Hsaio filters; M/N detection; MTI cancellers; clutter conditions; filter-bank processing; improvement factor; linear predictor filters; loss; performance; point clutter; radar; Adaptive filters; Africa; Clutter; Councils; Covariance matrix; Filtering; Finite impulse response filter; Nonlinear filters; Particle measurements; Sea measurements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications and Signal Processing, 1992. COMSIG '92., Proceedings of the 1992 South African Symposium on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0807-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMSIG.1992.274299

Filename

274299