밀리미터파 탐색기에서 ESPRIT 기법을 이용한 탄도 미사일 탄두 식별 신호처리 기법 개발

Abstract

This paper introduces a signal processing technique for discrimination of ballistic missile`s warhead. An interceptor missile to destroy the enemy`s ballistic missile requires an information on the location of missile`s warhead. In order to detect and locate the missile`s warhead, a seeker radar in the interceptor missile makes use of chirp waveform to generate high resolution range profiles(HRRPs). We applied one of the well known spectral estimation technique called ESPRIT (Estimation of Signal Parameters by Rotational Invariance Technique) to these HRRPs to estimate scattering centers on the target. Using the information on the one-dimensional(1-D) scattering centers, we can find the location of the warhead by estimating the length of the missile, Simulation results show that the proposed signal processing technique is efficient in discriminating the warhead of an ballistic missile.