Correlation methods for aircraft identification from fully polarized radar range profiles

Author

Zhenping, Chen ; Zhaowen, Zhuang ; Guirong, Guo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Changsha Inst. of Technol., Hunan, China

fYear

1994

fDate

23-27 May 1994

Firstpage

109

Abstract

There is a variety of ways to partially characterize an aircraft using radar. A very simple and rapid way to characterize an aircraft is through the use of high resolution range profiles. Hudson and Psaltis (1993) investigate the use of real radar range profiles for identification purposes, they concentrate on a correlator-based system, and achieve good results. In this paper, we extend their work to fully polarized situation. The results of our experiments show that correct identification rates of five scale-models aircraft are 100%, 95%, 92%, 100%, 100% and suggest that reliable aircraft identification is possible provided estimated aspect information and fully polarized profiles are used

Keywords

aircraft; correlation methods; filtering and prediction theory; image recognition; radar theory; aircraft identification; correlation filters; fully polarized radar range profiles; high range resolution radar; identification rates; image recognition; Airborne radar; Aircraft propulsion; Correlation; Filters; Polarization; Radar cross section; Radar imaging; Radar measurements; Radar scattering; Signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1994. NAECON 1994., Proceedings of the IEEE 1994 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1893-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1994.333011

Filename

333011