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http://dx.doi.org/10.9766/KIMST.2019.22.4.475

Modeling and Analysis of Radar Target Signatures in the VHF-Band Using Fast Chirplet Decomposition  

Park, Ji-hoon (The 3rd Research and Development Institute, Agency of Defense Development)
Kim, Si-ho (The 3rd Research and Development Institute, Agency of Defense Development)
Chae, Dae-Young (The 3rd Research and Development Institute, Agency of Defense Development)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology / v.22, no.4, 2019 , pp. 475-483 More about this Journal
Abstract
Although radar target signatures(RTS), such as range profiles have played an important role for target recognition in the X-band radar, they would be less effective when a target is designed to have low radar cross section(RCS). Recently, a number of research groups have conducted the studies on the RTS in the VHF-band where such targets can be better detected than in the X-band. However, there is a lack of work carried out on the mathematical description of the VHF-band RTS. In this paper, chirplet decomposition is employed for modeling of the VHF-band RTS and its performance is compared with that of existing scattering center model generally used for the X-band. In addition, the discriminative signal analysis is performed by chirplet parameterization of range profiles from in an ISAR image. Because the chirplet decomposition takes long computation time, its fast form is further proposed for enhanced practicality.
Keywords
Radar Target Signature; VHF-Band; Range Profile; Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar Image; Fast Chirplet Decomposition;
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