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Analysis of Detection Performance of Radar Signal Processor with Relation to Target Doppler Velocity and Clutter Spectrum Characteristics

표적 도플러 속도와 클러터 스펙트럼 특성에 따른 레이더 신호 처리기의 탐지 성능 분석

  • Published : 2011.01.31

Abstract

MTI filter is used to separate target signal from clutter in many radar signal processing. By suppressing clutter before CFAR detection, the detection performance can be improved. As a radar system designed, a design engineer generally takes averaged SNR and CNR into account and does not include the effect of MTI filter's frequency response. In practice, when the signals including clutter are pass through the filter, SNR is widely varying according to target velocity and CNR is also varying according to clutter center frequency and spectrum spreading. In this paper, we have derived the relationship between the MTI filter's frequency response and a target's velocity and a clutter's spectrum characteristics. With the variation of SNR and CNR at the filter output, the detection performance of CFAR has been analyzed by the simulation and has made certain of their influences on the performance.

MTI 필터는 대부분의 레이더 신호 처리에서 클러터로부터 표적을 분리하는데 이용된다. CFAR 검파 전 클러터를 제거됨으로써 탐지 성능이 개선될 수 있다. 레이더 시스템을 설계할 때, 일반적으로 설계자는 평균 SNR과 CNR을 고려하고 MTI 필터의 주파수 응답에 의한 영향은 포함되지 않는다. 실제의 경우, 클러터를 포함한 신호들이 필터를 통과할 때, SNR은 표적 속도에 따라 크게 변화하고, CNR 역시 클러터 중심 속도와 스펙트럼 퍼짐에 따라 변화하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 MTI 필터의 주파수 응답과 표적의 속도와 클러터의 스펙트럼 특성 간의관계를 유도하였다. 필터 출력의 SNR과 CNR의 변화에 의한 CFAR 탐지 성능을 시뮬레이션을 통해 분석하였고, 성능에 미치는 영향을 확인하였다.

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