access icon free Sea clutter suppression and micromotion marine target detection via radon-linear canonical ambiguity function

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Received 02/07/2014, Accepted 10/09/2014, Revised 31/08/2014, Published 13/02/2015

The micro-Doppler (m-D) signature of a marine target is used for detection within sea clutter in this study. The marine target usually has translational and rotational motions, and the corresponding radar returns can be modelled as a quadratic frequency modulated signal over a period of time. To compensate the range walk and Doppler migration of the micromotion target simultaneously, a novel long-time coherent integration detection algorithm, that is, Radon-linear canonical ambiguity function (RLCAF), is proposed. It has been proved that the m-D signal can be well matched and accumulated in the RLCAF domain using the long-time instantaneous autocorrelation function and associated with the parameterisation of the linear canonical transform. Furthermore, to suppress sea clutter and improve signal-to-clutter ratio, the authors propose a RLCAF spectrum subtraction method using the different properties of RLCAF representations between the target and sea clutter. Finally, experiments with real radar dataset indicate that the proposed method can achieve better integration and detection performance of a marine target with micromotion in case of high sea state.

Inspec keywords: object detection; radar clutter; FM radar; transforms; Doppler radar; radon; interference suppression; radar detection; correlation methods; marine radar

Other keywords: long-time coherent integration detection algorithm; rotational motion; microDoppler signature; spectrum subtraction method; linear canonical transform; RLCAF; sea clutter suppression; Doppler migration; signal-to-clutter ratio; translational motion; radar return; mD signature; long-time instantaneous autocorrelation function; quadratic frequency modulated signal; range walk compensation; micromotion marine target detection; radon-linear canonical ambiguity function

Subjects: Signal detection; Electromagnetic compatibility and interference; Radar equipment, systems and applications; Integral transforms

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