Sensitivity to noise and performance of HRR-based ATR using the Maximum Position alignment method

This paper studies the alignment of noisy high resolution radar signals using the Maximum Position method in automatic target recognition. The relationship between the shift estimation, the performance of the classifier and the signal to noise ratio is analyzed. Several experiments are carried out in order to study the influence of the alignment in the performance of a classification system. These experiments allow us to improve the understanding of the sensitivity to noise of the Maximum Position alignment method.