Reconstruction of the scattering function of overspread radar targets

Onur Oktay; Götz E. Pfander; Pavel Zheltov

Reconstruction of the scattering function of overspread radar targets

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Author(s): Onur Oktay ¹ ; Götz E. Pfander ¹ ; Pavel Zheltov ¹
- Affiliations: 1: School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Campus Ring 1, 28759 Bremen, Germany
Source: Volume 8, Issue 9, December 2014, p. 1018 – 1024
DOI: 10.1049/iet-spr.2013.0304 , Print ISSN 1751-9675, Online ISSN 1751-9683

Received 29/07/2013, Accepted 17/07/2014, Revised 23/06/2014, Published 15/12/2014

This study addresses the problem of stochastic radar target measurement. The authors develop an algorithm that allows for the reconstruction of the scattering function of a wide-sense stationarity with uncorrelated scattering radar target from the autocorrelation of the response of the target to a deterministic sounding signal. Although conventional methods are applicable only when the scattering function is supported on a ‘rectangle’ with area <1, the authors’ method can handle area 1 support sets of ‘arbitrary’ geometry. Based on the suggested theoretical recovery procedure, the authors propose an unbiased scattering function estimator.

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