scholarly journals Range-Doppler Domain-Based DOA Estimation Method for FM-Band Passive Bistatic Radar

IEEE Access ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 56880-56891
Author(s):  
Geun-Ho Park ◽  
Young-Kwang Seo ◽  
Hyoung-Nam Kim
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panhe Hu ◽  
Qinglong Bao ◽  
Zengping Chen

Direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation in multipath environment is an important issue for passive bistatic radar (PBR) using frequency agile phased array VHF radar as illuminator of opportunity. Under such scenario, the main focus of this paper is to cope with the closely spaced uncorrelated and coherent signals in low signal-to-noise ratio and limited snapshots. Making full use of the characteristics of moduli of eigenvalues, the DOAs of the uncorrelated signals are firstly estimated. Afterwards, their contributions are eliminated by means of spatial difference technique. Finally, in order to improve resolution and accuracy DOA estimation of remaining coherent signals while avoiding the cross-terms effect, a new beamforming solution based iterative adaptive approach (IAA) is proposed to deal with a reconstructed covariance matrix. The proposed method combines the advantages of both spatial difference method and the IAA algorithm while avoiding their shortcomings. Simulation results validate its effectiveness; meanwhile, the good performances of the proposed method in terms of resolution probability, detection probability, and estimation accuracy are demonstrated by comparison with the existing methods.


Electronics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiameng Pan ◽  
Panhe Hu ◽  
Qian Zhu ◽  
Qinglong Bao ◽  
Zengping Chen

This paper presents the concept of a passive bistatic radar (PBR) system using existing phased array radar (PAR) as the source of illumination. Different from PBR based on common civil illuminators of opportunity, we develop an experimental PBR system using an high-power air surveillance PAR with abundant signal modulation forms as the transmitter. After the introduction of the PBR system and PAR signals, it can be concluded that the agility of the waveform parameters of PAR signal brings two problems to the signal processing of the PBR systems, which are not discussed in conventional PBR systems. The first problem is the time and frequency synchronization of the system, so we propose a direct wave parameter estimation method based on template matching to estimate the parameters of the transmitted signal in real time to achieve time and frequency synchronization of the system. The second problem is the coherent integration for moving target detection and weak target detection, so we propose a coherent integration method based on Radon–Nonuniform Fast Fourier Transform (Radon-NUFFT) to deal with the problems introduced by the agile waveform parameters. Preliminary results from the field experiment demonstrate the feasibility of the PBR system based on PAR signals, and the effectiveness of the proposed methods is verified.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4403
Author(s):  
Ji Woong Paik ◽  
Joon-Ho Lee ◽  
Wooyoung Hong

An enhanced smoothed l0-norm algorithm for the passive phased array system, which uses the covariance matrix of the received signal, is proposed in this paper. The SL0 (smoothed l0-norm) algorithm is a fast compressive-sensing-based DOA (direction-of-arrival) estimation algorithm that uses a single snapshot from the received signal. In the conventional SL0 algorithm, there are limitations in the resolution and the DOA estimation performance, since a single sample is used. If multiple snapshots are used, the conventional SL0 algorithm can improve performance in terms of the DOA estimation. In this paper, a covariance-fitting-based SL0 algorithm is proposed to further reduce the number of optimization variables when using multiple snapshots of the received signal. A cost function and a new null-space projection term of the sparse recovery for the proposed scheme are presented. In order to verify the performance of the proposed algorithm, we present the simulation results and the experimental results based on the measured data.


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