J4 ›› 2010, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (6): 1053-1058.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2010.06.013

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New method for improving the performance of range-spread target detection

XU Shu-wen;SHUI Peng-lang   

  1. (National Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2009-11-10 Online:2010-12-20 Published:2011-01-22
  • Contact: XU Shu-wen E-mail:swxu@mail.xidian.edu.cn

Abstract:

Aimed at the shortage of the conventional hard threshold of the binary integrator, a new method based on the local fuzzy thresholding map is proposed. The new method utilizes the local fuzzy threshold in range dimension to suppress noise-only cells and preserve target's strong scattering cells. Then, the energy integration in the range-pulse domain realizes multi-pulse integration to improve the detection performance. Compared with the commonly-used spatial scattering density generalized likelihood ratio test (SSD-GLRT), by the proposed method one needn't know any a priori information on targets and this method has the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) characteristic. Experimental results show that the gain by the proposed method is increased about 2dB with respect to that by SSD-GLRT, and about 4dB with respect to that by the binary integrator.

Key words: high resolution range profile, local fuzzy threshold, binary integrator, scattering density, generalized likelihood ratio