OFDM MIMO radar for low-grazing angle tracking

We develop a low-grazing angle (LGA) tracking method considering realistic physical and statistical effects, such as earth´s curvature, vertical refractivity gradient of standard lower atmosphere, and non-Gaussian characteristics of sea-clutter. We employ a co-located multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) radar configuration using wideband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) signalling scheme. Apart from the frequency diversity provided by OFDM, we also exploit polarization to resolve the multipath signals by using polarization-sensitive transceivers. Thus, we can track the scattering coefficients of the target at different frequencies along with its position and velocity. We apply a sequential Monte Carlo method (particle filter) to track the target. Our numerical examples demonstrate the achieved performance improvements due to realistic physical modeling and OFDM MIMO configuration.