A Coherent Integration Method for Moving Target Detection Using Frequency Agile Radar

This letter addresses the coherent integration problem for the moving target detection in a frequency agile radar system. Due to the random phase fluctuation caused by the carrier frequency random hopping, the complex range–azimuth coupling effects will significantly deteriorate the target integration performance. In this letter, echoes are classified into different bursts according to the carrier frequencies, and then keystone transform (KT) is applied to correct range walk in every burst. After compensating the range offsets among different bursts and rearranging the signal returns, the scaled transform is constructed to remove the residual coupling between the agile carrier frequency and slow-time. Finally, a moving target can be well-focused in the frequency–velocity domain. Simulated results are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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