Resonance-region target detection with wideband VHF radar

Author

Jun You ; Xianrong Wan ; Hengyu Ke ; Ziping Gong ; Yunhua Rao

Author_Institution

Radio Propagation Lab., Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China

fYear

2013

fDate

14-16 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

VHF radar shows great promise in detecting stealth targets, since it works in resonance regions. Wideband VHF radar, as a new radar system, has an enormous potential. In this paper, target detection with wideband VHF radar that compensates for the fluctuation of targets´ RCS between different frequencies in the resonance region is introduced. The Boeing 747-200 model and the Predator model were designed for the study, and the aircrafts were studied in the 40~80MHz frequency band. Results show that: (1) the wideband detection is better than the narrowband single frequency detection; and (2) for greatly fluctuating targets, the wideband detection is better than the multi-frequency detection.

Keywords

airborne radar; radar cross-sections; radar detection; Boeing 747-200 model; RCS; aircraft; frequency 40 MHz to 80 MHz; multifrequency detection; narrowband single frequency detection; predator model; resonance-region target detection; wideband VHF radar; wideband detection; VHF radar; resonance regions; target detection; wideband radar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference 2013, IET International

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-84919-603-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp.2013.0460

Filename

6624624