Stochastic Radiation Radar High-Resolution Reconstruction Based on Interpulse Frequency Hopping Accumulation Method

Abstract

Stochastic radiation radar (SRR) transmits space-time two-dimensional stochastic signals to achieve superresolution imaging and can overcome the geometric acquisition limitations of traditional synthetic aperture radar (SAR). However, the resolution of an SRR system is limited by the number of effective singular values of its stochastic radiation field (SRF). In this letter, an interpulse frequency hopping accumulation (IFHA) method is proposed to improve the resolution of an SRR system. First, an SRR signal model is introduced. The rank of the traditional SRF generation method is quantitatively analyzed and is limited by the number of transmitting array elements. Second, an IFHA method is proposed to increase the number of the effective singular values of the SRF matrix, which can improve the superresolution imaging performance of SRR. Finally, the simulation results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.