Ground Moving Target Detection Using Beam-Doppler Image Feature Recognition

An innovative moving target detection approach termed as Beam-Doppler Image Feature Recognition (BDIFR) is introduced based on the distinction between moving target and ground clutter features in the beam-Doppler domain. A novel minimum-distance-based region-growing method is developed for radar target feature extraction and detection. The proposed BDIFR algorithm is advantageous over conventional space-time adaptive processing in detecting ground moving targets in inhomogeneous clutter environments since it does not require secondary training data for clutter estimation.

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