Radar imaging via adaptive MIMO techniques

We investigate several adaptive techniques for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system. By transmitting independent waveforms via different antennas, the echoes due to targets at different locations are linearly independent of each other, which allows the direct application of many adaptive techniques. We discuss several adaptive radar imaging algorithms, which can provide excellent estimation accuracy of both target locations and target amplitudes, and high robustness to the array calibration errors. To reject the false peaks due to the strong jammers, we also propose a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT). As shown by the numerical examples, the number of targets can be estimated accurately by using GLRT, and an accurate description of the target scenario can be obtained by combining the adaptive radar imaging algorithms and the GLRT technique.

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