Polarimetric Monopulse Radar Intelligent Emulator

For debugging polarimetric monopulse radar and testing polarization algorithms, a new polarimetric monopulse radar intelligent emulator is proposed and designed in this paper. The polarization information, as a basic character of the target echo, plays an important role in modern radar detection nowadays. The polarization algorithms are developed with rapid speed. It is not realistic to test all algorithms on real radar in research stage. Therefore, the polarimetric radar emulator is required. The functions of radar emulator are as follows: recording the valuable experiment data for researching, playing the experiment data as a radar receiver for radar signal processor debugging, running some polarization programs with real experiment data to test the programs. In the paper, the polarimetric monopulse radar intelligent emulator is introduced in detail. Firstly, the index of emulator is given; secondly, the emulator is divided into 3 modules to be introduced; thirdly, the system architecture and key techniques are analyzed; finally, the performance of emulator is given.