Abstract
Long-time coherent integration can effectively improve the radar detection ability of a maneuvering target. However, with the increasing of integration time, radial velocity and radial acceleration of the moving target result in linear range migration (LRM), range curvature (RC), and Doppler frequency migration (DFM) of the received signal. These may degrade detection performance seriously. To solve these problems, an efficient coherent accumulation method based on improved time reversal transform (ITRT) and modified radon Fourier transform (MRFT) is proposed in this paper. Different from conventional methods, this approach firstly eliminates the acceleration effects by ITRT. It can remove RC and DFM simultaneously via multiplying its slow-time reversed conjugate data in range-frequency and azimuth-time domains. Then by employing a new Doppler filter bank (DFB), MRFT realizes the echoes spatial temporal decoupling as well as the coherent integration in searching-velocity and Doppler-frequency domains. The major advantages of the proposed method are that RC and DFM can be rectified without parameter estimation, and computational complexity can be optimized by the new FFT-based filter bank. In addition, due to the nonlinearity of ITRT operation, the influence of cross terms of multiple targets on detection performance is also discussed. Several simulations are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
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