Effects of geometry on clutter characteristics of bistatic radars

Author

Zhang, Yuhong ; Himed, Braham

Author_Institution

Stiefvater Consultants, Rome, NY, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 May 2003

Firstpage

417

Lastpage

424

Abstract

This paper deals with the clutter characteristics of multichannel airborne radars. The analysis is performed using the clutter spectral center, which is a descriptive metric, in addition to commonly used measures such as Doppler-angle traces, iso-range, and iso-Doppler contours etc. The clutter characteristics of monostatic systems in the presence of crab angles and system errors are first examined. Then, the analysis of bistatic systems is focused on the effect of geometry on the clutter characteristics. Several interesting rules made from observation for the clutter characteristics with bistatic geometry are discussed.

Keywords

airborne radar; radar clutter; radar signal processing; space-time adaptive processing; Doppler-angle traces; bistatic geometry; bistatic systems; clutter characteristics; clutter spectral center; crab angles; descriptive metric; iso-Doppler contours; iso-range; monostatic systems; multichannel airborne radars; system errors; Azimuth; Directive antennas; Frequency; Geometry; Linear antenna arrays; Radar antennas; Radar clutter; Transmitters; Transmitting antennas; Two dimensional displays;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference, 2003. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7920-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NRC.2003.1203435

Filename

1203435