New Doppler Processing for the Detection of Small and Slowly-Moving Targets in Highly Ambiguous Radar Context. Aouchiche, L., Ferro-Famil, L., & Adnet, C. In 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pages 1207-1211, Sep., 2018.
New Doppler Processing for the Detection of Small and Slowly-Moving Targets in Highly Ambiguous Radar Context [pdf]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
This paper presents a novel Doppler processing scheme for pulse Doppler radars operating in at intermediate Pulse Repetition Frequency (PRF) and suffering from range and Doppler ambiguities. One of the main drawbacks of the classical Doppler processing approach concerns the suppression of small and slowly-moving targets when rejecting ground clutter returns. In order to address this problem a two-step Doppler method is proposed in this paper. The first step uses a new iterative algorithm that resolves ambiguities and detects fast (exo-clutter) targets. The detection of slow (endo-clutter) targets is then performed by an adaptive detection scheme that uses a new covariance matrix estimation technique. Pulse trains with different characteristics are then associated for enhanced detection performance.

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