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Moving target indication

About: Moving target indication is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2653 publications have been published within this topic receiving 32435 citations.


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21 Oct 2010
TL;DR: This work proposes to extend the principle of the MTI processing to the wideband case, and refers to this method as the Migrating Target Indicator (MiTI), since it eliminates the non-migrating targets from the received signals.
Abstract: The standard way to suppress clutter in narrowband radar is to use Moving Target Indicator (MTI) cancellation techniques. High Range Resolution (HRR) radars are becoming more and more important because they can detect and track targets more accurately. As for such radars the bandwidth is increased, the resolution is decreased and leads to target range migration over the coherent pulse interval (CPI). Due to this range walk, standard low resolution MTI processing is not adapted anymore to HRR MTI radar data. We propose here to extend the principle of the MTI processing to the wideband case. We refer to this method as the Migrating Target Indicator (MiTI), since it eliminates the non-migrating targets from the received signals.

8 citations

Proceedings ArticleDOI
26 May 2008
TL;DR: In this paper, a scheme for the real-time estimation and compensation of the moving clutter Doppler shift due to the moving radar platform is presented for the airborne pulsed radar system.
Abstract: A scheme for the real-time estimation and compensation of the moving clutter Doppler shift due to the moving radar platform is presented for the airborne pulsed Doppler radar system. A new scheme employs the dwell-time based clutter-lock MTD method in order to estimate and compensate the mean Doppler shift within antenna beam dwell time by using high speed DSP based Doppler FFT processing. Through the helicopter-borne radar flight test using real-time radar data acquisition system, the moving clutter Doppler spectrum is measured and analyzed in terms of a various operational parameters.

8 citations

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Jia Xu1, Zuzhen Huang1, Liang Yan1, Xu Zhou1, Furu Zhang, Teng Long1 
12 Oct 2016-Sensors
TL;DR: A novel method called relative residue of DPCA (RR-DPCA), which jointly utilizes the DPCC cancellation outputs and the multi-look images to improve the detection performance of weak river surfaces is proposed.
Abstract: For modern synthetic aperture radar (SAR), it has much more urgent demands on ground moving target indication (GMTI), which includes not only the point moving targets like cars, truck or tanks but also the distributed moving targets like river or ocean surfaces. Among the existing GMTI methods, displaced phase center antenna (DPCA) can effectively cancel the strong ground clutter and has been widely used. However, its detection performance is closely related to the target’s signal-to-clutter ratio (SCR) as well as radial velocity, and it cannot effectively detect the weak large-sized river surfaces in strong ground clutter due to their low SCR caused by specular scattering. This paper proposes a novel method called relative residue of DPCA (RR-DPCA), which jointly utilizes the DPCA cancellation outputs and the multi-look images to improve the detection performance of weak river surfaces. Furthermore, based on the statistics analysis of the RR-DPCA outputs on the homogenous background, the cell average (CA) method can be well applied for subsequent constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection. The proposed RR-DPCA method can well detect the point moving targets and distributed moving targets simultaneously. Finally, the results of both simulated and real data are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed SAR/GMTI method.

8 citations

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TL;DR: A behavioral model based on a Foster network topology has been developed to replicate the measured amplitude and phase transients accurately, which has been used to develop a digital predistortion technique that successfully mitigates the impact of the transients as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The incorporation of gallium nitride (GaN) power amplifiers (PAs) into future high-power aperture radar systems is certain; however, the introduction of this technology into multifunction radar systems will present new challenges to radar engineers. This paper describes a broad investigation into amplitude and phase transients produced by GaN PAs when they are excited with multifunction radar waveforms. These transients are the result of self-heating electrothermal memory effects and are manifested as interpulse instabilities that can negatively impact the coherent processing of multiple pulses. A behavioral model based on a Foster network topology has been developed to replicate the measured amplitude and phase transients accurately. This model has been used to develop a digital predistortion technique that successfully mitigates the impact of the transients. The moving target indicator improvement factor and the root mean square pulse-to-pulse stability are used as a metric to assess the impact of transients on radar system performance and to test the effectiveness of a novel digital predistortion concept.

8 citations

Proceedings Article
18 Jun 2004
TL;DR: The moving target indication adaptability facilitates the radar sensor to adjust its operational capabilities to the current weather conditions in the area swept by radar surveillance envelope.
Abstract: The function of the moving target indication is to suppress the radar returns from static or slow-moving unwanted objects and to pass, for further processing, the echoes from the aerial or sea surface moving objects or targets. The moving target indication adaptability facilitates the radar sensor to adjust its operational capabilities to the current weather conditions in the area swept by radar surveillance envelope.

8 citations


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202052
201966
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