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Track quality evaluation method using amplitude information

LIU Hongliang1,2;ZHOU Shenghua1,2;LIU Hongwei1,2;LU Ruilian1,2;YAN Junkun1,2   

  1. (1. National Key Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China;
    2. Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding, Xidian Univ., Xi'an 710071, China)
  • Received:2015-11-24 Online:2017-02-20 Published:2017-04-01

Abstract:

Increasing the false alarm rate can improve detection performance of weak targets, but it will induce too many false tracks. Therefore, a track quality evaluation method based on amplitude information is proposed in this paper, to further distinguish target tracks and false tracks. Firstly, according to the amplitude information on one plot, we give a quality evaluation function for each plot; then, based on the plot quality in a temporal window for track quality evaluation, we calculate the track quality; finally, we accomplish track confirmation, track maintenance and track termination according to the calculated track quality. Numerical results indicate that the proposed method can obtain a higher probability of track confirmation and track maintenance at a strict track quality standard with a lower probability of track deletion, indicating the improvement of detection performance of weak targets.

Key words: radar, target tracking, track quality evaluation, amplitude information