This paper focuses on the adaptive detection of range and Doppler dual-spread targets in non-homogeneous and nonGaussian sea clutter.The sea clutter from two polarimetric channels is modeled as a compound-Gaussian mod...This paper focuses on the adaptive detection of range and Doppler dual-spread targets in non-homogeneous and nonGaussian sea clutter.The sea clutter from two polarimetric channels is modeled as a compound-Gaussian model with different parameters,and the target is modeled as a subspace rangespread target model.The persymmetric structure is used to model the clutter covariance matrix,in order to reduce the reliance on secondary data of the designed detectors.Three adaptive polarimetric persymmetric detectors are designed based on the generalized likelihood ratio test(GLRT),Rao test,and Wald test.All the proposed detectors have constant falsealarm rate property with respect to the clutter texture,the speckle covariance matrix.Experimental results on simulated and measured data show that three adaptive detectors outperform the competitors in different clutter environments,and the proposed GLRT detector has the best detection performance under different parameters.展开更多
In this paper,a comprehensive overview of radar detection methods for low-altitude targets in maritime environments is presented,focusing on the challenges posed by sea clutter and multipath scattering.The performance...In this paper,a comprehensive overview of radar detection methods for low-altitude targets in maritime environments is presented,focusing on the challenges posed by sea clutter and multipath scattering.The performance of the radar detection methods under sea clutter,multipath,and combined conditions is categorized and summarized,and future research directions are outlined to enhance radar detection performance for low-altitude targets in maritime environments.展开更多
In this paper,a detection method combining Cameron decomposition based on polarization scattering characteristics in sea clutter background is proposed.Firstly,the Cameron decomposition is exploited to fuse the radar ...In this paper,a detection method combining Cameron decomposition based on polarization scattering characteristics in sea clutter background is proposed.Firstly,the Cameron decomposition is exploited to fuse the radar echoes of full polarization channels at the data level.Due to the artificial material structure on the surface of the target,it can be shown that the non-reciprocity of the target cell is stronger than that of the clutter cell.Then,based on the analysis of the decomposition results,a new feature with scattering geometry characteristics in polarization domain,denoted as Cameron polarization decomposition scattering weight(CPD-SW),is extracted as the test statistic,which can achieve more detailed descriptions of the clutter scattering characteristics utilizing the difference between their scattering types.Finally,the superiority of the proposed CPD-SW detector over traditional detectors in improving detection performance is verified by the IPIX measured dataset,which has strong stability under short-time observation in threshold detection and can also improve the separability of feature space zin anomaly detection.展开更多
Radar detection of small targets in sea clutter is a particularly demanding task because of the nonstationary characteristic of sea clutter.The track-before-detect(TBD)filter is an effective way to increase the signal...Radar detection of small targets in sea clutter is a particularly demanding task because of the nonstationary characteristic of sea clutter.The track-before-detect(TBD)filter is an effective way to increase the signal-to-clutter ratio(SCR),thus improving the detection performance of small targets in sea clutter.To cope with the nonstationary characteristic of sea clutter,an easily-implemented Bayesian TBD filter with adaptive detection threshold is proposed and a new parameter estimation method is devised which is integrated into the detection process.The detection threshold is set according to the parameter estimation result under the framework of information theory.For detection of closely spaced targets,those within the same range cell as the one under test are treated as contribution to sea clutter,and a successive elimination method is adopted to detect them.Simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in detecting small targets in nonstationary sea clutter,especially closely spaced ones.展开更多
针对现有基于图域变换的雷达海面小目标检测算法仅考虑单个样本之间的相关性,存在性能不佳、复杂度高等问题,提出了一种基于序数图变换的改进算法。首先,将雷达回波信号的自相关函数转换成可有效获取状态向量之间关联性的序数图,进而提...针对现有基于图域变换的雷达海面小目标检测算法仅考虑单个样本之间的相关性,存在性能不佳、复杂度高等问题,提出了一种基于序数图变换的改进算法。首先,将雷达回波信号的自相关函数转换成可有效获取状态向量之间关联性的序数图,进而提取该图的无符号拉氏矩阵最大特征值作为检测统计量,以实现区分海杂波和目标信号的目的。以McMaster大学提供的实测全相参X波段雷达数据集为对象,对算法的性能进行了广泛评估,结果表明所提算法的平均接收机工作特性曲线下面积(Area under Curve,AUC)可达0.907,优于现有算法,且其计算复杂度适中。展开更多
Long-time coherent integration(LTCI)is an effective way for radar maneuvering target detection,but it faces the problem of a large number of search parameters and large amount of calculation.Realizing the simultaneous...Long-time coherent integration(LTCI)is an effective way for radar maneuvering target detection,but it faces the problem of a large number of search parameters and large amount of calculation.Realizing the simultaneous compensation of the range and Doppler migrations in complex clutter back-ground,and at the same time improving the calculation efficiency has become an urgent problem to be solved.The sparse transformation theory is introduced to LTCI in this paper,and a non-parametric searching sparse LTCI(SLTCI)based maneuvering target detection method is proposed.This method performs time reversal(TR)and second-order Keystone transform(SKT)in the range frequency&slow-time data to complete high-order range walk compensation,and achieves the coherent integra-tion of maneuvering target across range and Doppler units via the robust sparse fractional Fourier transform(RSFRFT).It can compensate for the nonlinear range migration caused by high-order motion.S-band and X-band radar data measured in sea clutter background are used to verify the detection performance of the proposed method,which can achieve better detection performance of maneuvering targets with less computational burden compared with several popular integration methods.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62371382,62071346)the Science,Technology&Innovation Project of Xiong’an New Area(2022XAGG0181)the Special Funds for Creative Research(2022C61540)。
文摘This paper focuses on the adaptive detection of range and Doppler dual-spread targets in non-homogeneous and nonGaussian sea clutter.The sea clutter from two polarimetric channels is modeled as a compound-Gaussian model with different parameters,and the target is modeled as a subspace rangespread target model.The persymmetric structure is used to model the clutter covariance matrix,in order to reduce the reliance on secondary data of the designed detectors.Three adaptive polarimetric persymmetric detectors are designed based on the generalized likelihood ratio test(GLRT),Rao test,and Wald test.All the proposed detectors have constant falsealarm rate property with respect to the clutter texture,the speckle covariance matrix.Experimental results on simulated and measured data show that three adaptive detectors outperform the competitors in different clutter environments,and the proposed GLRT detector has the best detection performance under different parameters.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62171447)。
文摘In this paper,a comprehensive overview of radar detection methods for low-altitude targets in maritime environments is presented,focusing on the challenges posed by sea clutter and multipath scattering.The performance of the radar detection methods under sea clutter,multipath,and combined conditions is categorized and summarized,and future research directions are outlined to enhance radar detection performance for low-altitude targets in maritime environments.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62201251)the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China(22KJB510024)the Open Fund for the Hangzhou Institute of Technology Academician Workstation at Xidian University(XH-KY-202306-0291)。
文摘In this paper,a detection method combining Cameron decomposition based on polarization scattering characteristics in sea clutter background is proposed.Firstly,the Cameron decomposition is exploited to fuse the radar echoes of full polarization channels at the data level.Due to the artificial material structure on the surface of the target,it can be shown that the non-reciprocity of the target cell is stronger than that of the clutter cell.Then,based on the analysis of the decomposition results,a new feature with scattering geometry characteristics in polarization domain,denoted as Cameron polarization decomposition scattering weight(CPD-SW),is extracted as the test statistic,which can achieve more detailed descriptions of the clutter scattering characteristics utilizing the difference between their scattering types.Finally,the superiority of the proposed CPD-SW detector over traditional detectors in improving detection performance is verified by the IPIX measured dataset,which has strong stability under short-time observation in threshold detection and can also improve the separability of feature space zin anomaly detection.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61671139)。
文摘Radar detection of small targets in sea clutter is a particularly demanding task because of the nonstationary characteristic of sea clutter.The track-before-detect(TBD)filter is an effective way to increase the signal-to-clutter ratio(SCR),thus improving the detection performance of small targets in sea clutter.To cope with the nonstationary characteristic of sea clutter,an easily-implemented Bayesian TBD filter with adaptive detection threshold is proposed and a new parameter estimation method is devised which is integrated into the detection process.The detection threshold is set according to the parameter estimation result under the framework of information theory.For detection of closely spaced targets,those within the same range cell as the one under test are treated as contribution to sea clutter,and a successive elimination method is adopted to detect them.Simulation results prove the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in detecting small targets in nonstationary sea clutter,especially closely spaced ones.
文摘针对现有基于图域变换的雷达海面小目标检测算法仅考虑单个样本之间的相关性,存在性能不佳、复杂度高等问题,提出了一种基于序数图变换的改进算法。首先,将雷达回波信号的自相关函数转换成可有效获取状态向量之间关联性的序数图,进而提取该图的无符号拉氏矩阵最大特征值作为检测统计量,以实现区分海杂波和目标信号的目的。以McMaster大学提供的实测全相参X波段雷达数据集为对象,对算法的性能进行了广泛评估,结果表明所提算法的平均接收机工作特性曲线下面积(Area under Curve,AUC)可达0.907,优于现有算法,且其计算复杂度适中。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62222120,61871391,U1933135)Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation(ZR2021YQ43).
文摘Long-time coherent integration(LTCI)is an effective way for radar maneuvering target detection,but it faces the problem of a large number of search parameters and large amount of calculation.Realizing the simultaneous compensation of the range and Doppler migrations in complex clutter back-ground,and at the same time improving the calculation efficiency has become an urgent problem to be solved.The sparse transformation theory is introduced to LTCI in this paper,and a non-parametric searching sparse LTCI(SLTCI)based maneuvering target detection method is proposed.This method performs time reversal(TR)and second-order Keystone transform(SKT)in the range frequency&slow-time data to complete high-order range walk compensation,and achieves the coherent integra-tion of maneuvering target across range and Doppler units via the robust sparse fractional Fourier transform(RSFRFT).It can compensate for the nonlinear range migration caused by high-order motion.S-band and X-band radar data measured in sea clutter background are used to verify the detection performance of the proposed method,which can achieve better detection performance of maneuvering targets with less computational burden compared with several popular integration methods.
