Joint Estimation of Doppler and Time Delay of Wideband Echoes for LFM Pulse Radar Based on Fractional Correlation in Impulse Noise Environment

A new method to estimate the Doppler and multipath time delay is presented in impulse noise environment. First, the Doppler is estimated by energy cumulation of multipath component based on fractional lower-order-frational correlation transform. Then, an order-reduced signal is reconstructed combining the Doppler with the prior knowledge of the transmitted signal, and the echoes signal is converted to many single-frequency signals. Finally, the multipath time delay is obtained by the fractional lower-order power spectrum method. The method is adapted for low SNR noise, can restrain the affection of the cross-items, and has a high time-delay estimation resolution. Some computer simulations are given in this paper and the results show that the new method is valid.