Radar-Target Identification via Exponential Extinction-Pulse Synthesis

New contributions to noncooperative radar-target discrimination using only the scattered response of conductive objects are presented in this paper. The technique studied is the extinction-pulse (E-pulse), which makes use of natural resonances as discrimination features. The E-pulse expansion using complex exponential functions as basis functions is proposed, obtaining new E-pulses with characteristics completely different from those in the literature. Specifically, a weighting factor is added to modulate the exponential frequency, providing E-pulses with better discrimination capability. Numerical results achieved in the discrimination between thin straight wires of different lengths show that the proposed exponential E-pulses improve the discrimination results with respect to other types of E-pulses in the literature.