Clutter suppression and ground moving target imaging approach for hypersonic vehicle borne multichannel radar based on two-step focusing method

Abstract In this paper, a novel clutter suppression and ground moving target imaging approach is proposed for hypersonic vehicle (HSV) borne multichannel (MC) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system. Compared with the traditional MC SAR ground moving target indication (GMTI) methods, the proposed algorithm can suppress clutter and decrease the moving target energy loss based on the improved MC clutter suppression method in the chirp Fourier transform (CFT) domain. Moreover, the moving target can be accurately focused by compensating the range curvature and the third order phase item. In addition, the motion parameters can be estimated precisely and the moving target can be focused accurately. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method is validated by the simulation examples.

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