A motion compensation method for the single transmitter and multiple receivers mobile radar system

Abstract

The single transmitter and multiple receivers (STMR) mobile radar system is a special distributed radar system, which has stronger detection and survival capabilities. However, the high‐speed movement of the radar platforms easily produce the across‐range cell migration (RCM) of radar echo signal, which cause envelope shift effects within the coherent processing interval. Here, a motion compensation method for the STMR mobile radar system in the sea environment, to solve the problem of RCM is proposed. First, the target points and clutter points with the same Doppler velocity are obtained by the radon Fourier transform method. Second, using the range/Doppler difference between clutter and target under multi‐radar views, the target and clutter points are separated by the spatial range mapping. The simulation results show that the method can effectively improve the coherent accumulation effect of the target in the sea environment with low signal‐to‐clutter ratio (SCR).