Title :
Fully polarized radar target scattering center extraction
Author :
Dai Da-hai ; Luo Jia ; Liu Zhong-xun ; Wang Xue-song ; Xiao Shun-ping
Author_Institution :
Nat. Univ. of Defense Technol., Changsha
Abstract :
A new method for fully polarized radar target scattering center extraction is proposed using Coherent Polarization Geometrical Theory of Diffraction (CP-GTD) model. Unlike the traditional single fixed-polarization GTD method, the new method can overleap the step of scattering centers association and can estimate coherent scattering matrices of scattering centers accurately. It also provides a better performance and a reduced computation burden because the full-polarization information is used. The superiority of the CP-GTD is verified by experiment results based on simulated data. The method can also be easily extended for SAR/ISAR.
Keywords :
electromagnetic wave diffraction; electromagnetic wave scattering; radar target recognition; radar theory; coherent polarization geometrical theory of diffraction; coherent scattering matrices; fully polarized radar target scattering center extraction; Electromagnetic scattering; Frequency estimation; Geometry; Physical theory of diffraction; Polarization; Radar scattering; Radar theory; Reflection; Scattering parameters; Solid modeling; CP-GTD model; MUSIC algorithm; full-polarization; radar target; radar target recognition; scattering center;
Conference_Titel :
Synthetic Aperture Radar, 2007. APSAR 2007. 1st Asian and Pacific Conference on
Conference_Location :
Huangshan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1188-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1188-7
DOI :
10.1109/APSAR.2007.4418579
