access icon free MIMO SAR Waveform Separation Based on Costas-LFM Signal and Co-arrays for Maritime Surveillance

In case of bright targets over a dark background, the cross-correlation noise of Multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) orthogonal waveforms in the same frequency coverage will increase which can degrade the image. An Interpulse Costas hopping and intra-pulse Slope coded linearly frequency modulated (IPC-SCLFM) waveform is designed and analyzed to decrease the autocorrelation and cross-correlation noise. Besides a novel acquisition mode of “MIMO Coprime SAR” (MIMO-Cop SAR) is proposed with Coprime arrays (Co-arrays) in receive across the SAR line of flight based on digital beamforming. An improved processing by multiplying values at each pixel of two coarrays images is proposed to suppress the cross-correlation noise. MIMO-Cop SAR can effectively suppress the crosscorrelation noise, reduce the amount of data to be stored and get high signal-to-noise ratio in a simple way. The effectiveness of MIMO-Cop SAR for maritime surveillance is demonstrated by the simulation experiments.

Inspec keywords: marine radar; video surveillance; synthetic aperture radar; radar signal processing; MIMO radar

Other keywords: SAR orthogonal waveforms; Interpulse Costas; cross-correlation noise; MIMO Synthetic aperture radar; Costas-LFM signal; MIMO SAR waveform separation; coarrays; IPC-SCLFM waveform; multiple input and multiple output; intrapulse slope coded linearly frequency modulated; cross correlation noise; autocorrelation noise; MIMO-Cop SAR; signal-to-noise ratio; maritime surveillance

Subjects: Radar equipment, systems and applications; Signal processing and detection; Television and video equipment, systems and applications

http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/cje.2016.11.015
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