Use of radar polarimetric information in CFAR and classification algorithms
Abstract
This paper shows how the additional information obtained from a coherent polarimetric radar can be used in signal processing, and shows the advantages of the multivariate polarimetric processing compared to the normally used one channel processing. Further, the overall signal processing procedure for a ground-based radar using polarimetric information is shown. The new concepts of a polarimetric-CFAR and a polarimetric ground clutter map are introduced. For the target classification a new representation of the feature vectors is proposed which allows displaying the information contained in the measured scattering matrices.
- Publication:
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Radar 89, Volume 1
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989rada....1..242W
- Keywords:
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- Coherent Radar;
- False Alarms;
- Polarimetry;
- Pulse Radar;
- Signal Processing;
- Matrices (Mathematics);
- Multivariate Statistical Analysis;
- Radar Clutter Maps;
- Radar Measurement;
- Communications and Radar