Optimal Polarized Waveform Design for Active Target Parameter Estimation Using Electromagnetic Vector Sensors

Author

Hurtado, Martin ; Nehorai, Arye

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL

Volume

5

fYear

2006

fDate

14-19 May 2006

Abstract

We develop optimal design methods of polarimetric radar signals that improve the estimation accuracy of the target parameters. A weighted sum of the Cramer-Rao bound (CRB) of the parameters of interest is used as the cost function of the optimization. We employ an array of electromagnetic vector sensors to fully recover the polarization information from the target returns. Simulation examples illustrate the improved system performance

Keywords

electromagnetic wave polarisation; parameter estimation; radar signal processing; Cramer-Rao bound; active target parameter estimation; electromagnetic vector sensors; optimal polarized waveform design; polarimetric radar signals; polarization information; weighted sum; Clutter; Electromagnetic measurements; Electromagnetic scattering; Electromagnetic wave polarization; Parameter estimation; Radar polarimetry; Radar scattering; Sensor arrays; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Signal resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, 2006. ICASSP 2006 Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toulouse

ISSN

1520-6149

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0469-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASSP.2006.1661478

Filename

1661478