A fast algorithm for multi-component LFM signal analysis exploiting segmented DPT and SDFrFT

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the chirp rates of multi-component linear frequency modulated signals, which is important in radar, sonar and navigation signal processing. The main difficulties in the estimation procedure lie in the cross-terms between multi-components and the high computation burden. To solve these problems, a novel algorithm that combines segmented discrete polynomial-phase transform and sparse discrete fractional Fourier transform is proposed to yield a significant reduction of the computational load with a satisfactory estimation performance. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.