J4 ›› 2011, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 82-88.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-2400.2011.04.015

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SNR weighting based target detection algorithm for spatial diversity radar

ZHOU Shenghua;LIU Hongwei;LIU Baochang;YIN Kuiying   

  1. (National Lab. of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian Univ., Xi'an  710071, China)
  • Received:2010-04-30 Online:2011-08-20 Published:2011-09-28
  • Contact: ZHOU Shenghua E-mail:zhou3sheng@gmail.com

Abstract:

For a spatial diversity radar, signals received by widely separated radar sites may have different signal-noise-ratios (SNRs) due to different distances between radar sites and target, which would decrease the detection performance of the conventional incoherent accumulating detector (IAD). Based on the Neyman-Pearson criterion, a signal fusion based target detection algorithm is proposed, which weights signals received by different radar sites according to channel SNRs estimated. With channel SNRs of radar sites known, this algorithm achieves the upper bound of the detection performance. Numerical experiments indicate that the proposed algorithm gives a much better detection performance than the conventional IAD, especially when channel SNRs are low.

Key words: radar target detection, spatial diversity radar, signal fusion based detection, detection with SNR weighting