Automatic Target Recognition Based On Sequences of High Resolution Radar Range-Profiles

Author

Xiang, Fang ; Donglin, Su

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron. & Inf. Eng., Beijing Univ. of Aeronaut. & Astronaut.

fYear

2006

fDate

1-4 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

658

Lastpage

661

Abstract

In this paper, the potential for identifying airborne or ground targets using high resolution radar (HRR) range-profiles, in conjunction with a correlator, is investigated. One type of filter is described which maximizes the expected value of certain correlation peaks. The effectiveness of the filter was investigated in an identification experiment using a dataset of correlation filters from simulated radar range profiles for 4 different ground targets. The simulated range-profiles are produced by graphical electromagnetic computing (GRECO) method. The result suggests that reliable identification is possible provided target aspect information is used and identifications are based on multiple filters

Keywords

computational electromagnetics; correlation methods; filtering theory; image recognition; image resolution; radar resolution; automatic target recognition; correlation filters; correlation peaks; graphical electromagnetic computing; high resolution radar range-profiles; Aircraft; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic scattering; Filters; Libraries; Optical reflection; Radar; Rough surfaces; Target recognition; Wideband; GRECO; automatic target recognition; range-profile;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Environmental Electromagnetics, The 2006 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0183-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEEM.2006.258040

Filename

4027372