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Chenguang Shi1,2, Sana Salous3, Fei Wang4
1Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, Ministry of Education, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China. scg_space@163.com.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|December 9, 2016
Summary
This study analyzes target parameter estimation for linear frequency modulation (LFM) radar networks in Rician fading. Exploiting the dominant scatterer component significantly enhances joint estimation performance.
Area of Science:
- Electrical Engineering
- Signal Processing
- Radar Systems
Background:
- Radar networks using linear frequency modulation (LFM) are crucial for target detection.
- Performance analysis in Rician fading environments is essential for robust radar systems.
- Accurate joint target parameter estimation (delay and Doppler) is a key challenge.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the joint target parameter estimation performance of LFM-based radar networks in Rician fading.
- To derive and analyze the Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CRBLs) for target position and velocity estimation.
- To evaluate the impact of different signal components on estimation accuracy.
Main Methods:
- Derivation of the log-likelihood function for a Rician target model.
- Calculation of analytically closed-form Cramer-Rao lower bounds (CRBLs).
- Analysis of the Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) considering dominant scatterer (DS) and weak isotropic scatterer (WIS) components.
Main Results:
- The cumulative Fisher Information Matrix (FIM) is a linear combination of DS and WIS components.
- Joint CRBL is dependent on SNR, target RCS, waveform parameters, and network geometry.
- Exploiting the dominant scatterer (DS) component significantly improves joint target parameter estimation performance.
Conclusions:
- The study provides a performance metric (CRBL) for LFM radar networks in Rician fading.
- The findings highlight the importance of the dominant scatterer component for enhanced estimation accuracy.
- The research offers insights into optimizing radar network design for improved target tracking.
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