EFFECTIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE ROTATION-INDUCED MICRO-DOPPLER FROM A NOISE-CORRUPTED SIGNATURE

This paper presents an efiective method for reconstructing the rotation-induced micro-Doppler from a signature corrupted by noise. Based on empirical mode decomposition (EMD), a low-pass fllter is employed as its preprocessor in order to efiectively extract the flrst chopping harmonic component of the rotation-induced micro- Doppler. Then the extracted component is used for reconstructing the original micro-Doppler signature in the joint time-frequency domain. Although it is di-cult to interpret the time-frequency representation of the noise-corrupted signature, the reconstruction of the micro- Doppler enables the acquisition of related information and can be used for complementing other traditional analysis methods. By validating the applicability of the proposed method with measured jet engine modulation (JEM) signatures, we demonstrate that the reconstruction process presented in this paper is expected to be signiflcantly helpful for radar target recongnition in real environments.

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