Computationally Efficient RF Interference Suppression Method With Closed-Form Maximum Likelihood Estimator for HF Surface Wave Over-The-Horizon Radars

Among all types of unwanted signals in high-frequency (HF) surface wave (HFSW) over-the-horizon (OTH) radars, radio-frequency interference (RFI) is dominant since HF band is shared by many radio services. In observation data, there are two types of common RFI. The most common one is the conventional RFI which presents vertical stripe paralleling to range axis in range-Doppler spectrum (RDS) and has been exhaustively reported by previous papers. Meanwhile, a new type of RFI characterized by sloping stripes (called RFISS) in RDS is also frequently observed. This work concentrates on the new RFISS and establishes a unified model for the above two types of RFI. Based on this generalized model, a time-domain RFI suppression algorithm is proposed here. Benefiting from a closed-form approximate maximum likelihood estimator, the proposed algorithm exhibits excellent performance and is computationally efficient. Its operational performance is evaluated using the field data recorded by experimental HFSW OTH radar of Wuhan University.

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