A New Approach for Sea Target Detection in Satellite Based Passive Radar

This paper discusses the problem of sea target detection in satellite based passive radars. This problem is the consequent of two main factors. The first factor, which is common in all passiveradars, is that the transmitter is not under the control of radar designer and its ambiguity function is usually undesirable forradar use, therefore the target is masked by the leakage of reference signal, clutter, and stronger targets. The second andmore important problem in sea target detection is that the seatargets cannot be extracted from clutter in Doppler domain due to their close velocity. To overcome these problems, an LS basedalgorithm is proposed in this paper. In the proposed algorithm the reference signal leakage is attenuated by ECA algorithm, thenusing a least squares algorithm and a two dimensional cell averaging CFAR, the targets are extracted. Simulation resultsshow that the approach is more effective in compared with the ambiguity function based algorithms in terms of accuracy andresolution.

کلیدواژه ها:

2D-CACFAR ، ECA ، LS ، PBR ، sea target