A motion compensation method for the single transmitter and multiple
receivers mobile radar system
Abstract
The single transmitter and multiple receivers (STMR) mobile radar system
is a special distributed radar system, which has stronger detection and
survival capabilities. However, the high-speed movement of the radar
platforms easily produce the across-range cell migration (RCM) of radar
echo signal, which cause envelope shift effects within the coherent
processing interval (CPI). In this paper, we proposed a motion
compensation method for the STMR mobile radar system in the sea
environment, to solve the problem of RCM. Firstly, the target points and
clutter points with the same Doppler velocity are obtained by the radon
Fourier transform (RFT) method. Secondly, using the range / Doppler
difference between clutter and target under multi-radar views, the
target and clutter points are separated by the spatial range mapping.
The simulation results show that the method can effectively improve the
coherent accumulation effect of the target in the sea environment with
low signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR).