• DocumentCode
    1258552
  • Title

    Nutation feature extraction of ballistic missile warhead

  • Author

    Huixia, S. ; Zheng, Lei

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Lab. for Radar Signal Process., Xidian Univ., Xi´an, China
  • Volume
    47
  • Issue
    13
  • fYear
    2011
  • Firstpage
    770
  • Lastpage
    772
  • Abstract
    To elucidate nutation signatures, the model of nutation for a ballistic missile warhead is established and formulas of micro-Doppler induced by a target with nutation are derived. Two micro-Doppler features, which are micro-motion period and micro-Doppler bandwidth, are extracted based on high-resolution time-frequency transform. The validity of the features extracted in this reported work is verified by computer simulations even with low signal-to-noise ratio.
  • Keywords
    Doppler effect; ballistics; feature extraction; missiles; time-frequency analysis; ballistic missile warhead; elucidate nutation signature; feature extraction; high resolution time frequency transform; microDoppler bandwidth; microDoppler feature; micromotion period; nutation feature extraction; nutation model; signal-to-noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el.2011.0580
  • Filename
    5931015