Title :
Target-to-clutter contrast enhancement using radar Doppler polarimetry
Author :
Moisseev, Dmitri ; Unal, Christine ; Russchenberg, Herman ; Ligthart, Leo
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Inf. Technol. & Syst., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands
Abstract :
The connection between Doppler and polarimetric characteristics of targets is studied. It is shown that the Doppler polarimetric formalism provides more complete radar object description. These conclusions are supported by the model of simple compound object as well as by the radar observations of ground clutter. It is also shown that the clutter suppression which is based on Doppler polarimetric object description gives better contrast enhancement than the polarimetric optimization techniques
Keywords :
Doppler radar; interference suppression; radar clutter; radar detection; radar polarimetry; radar target recognition; radar theory; clutter suppression; ground clutter; radar Doppler polarimetry; target-to-clutter contrast enhancement; Backscatter; Clutter; Covariance matrix; Doppler radar; Information technology; Polarization; Radar measurements; Radar polarimetry; Radar scattering; Road transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Radar Conference, 2001. Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Atlanta, GA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6707-3
DOI :
10.1109/NRC.2001.922999
