Detection of range migrating targets in compound-Gaussian clutter

Nikita Petrov, Francois le Chevalier, Alexander Yarovoy

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Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of coherent radar detection of fast moving targets in a high range resolution mode. In particular, we are focusing on the spiky clutter modeled as a compound Gaussian process with rapidly varying power along range. Additionally, a fast moving target of interest has a few range cells migration within the coherent processing interval. Two coherent CFAR detectors are proposed taking into account target migration and highly inhomogeneous clutter. Both detectors involve solution of a transcendental equation, carried out numerically in a few iterations. The performance evaluation is addressed by numerical simulations and it shows a significant improvement in detection of fast moving targets in inhomogeneous heavy tailed radar clutter.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)37-50
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Volume54
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • Wideband radar
  • Radar detection
  • Doppler radar
  • Range migration
  • High range resolution
  • Radar clutter
  • Kdistribution

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