Target Bearing Estimation for Ship-Borne HFSWR Using Doppler Effect and Very Small Antenna Array

In this article, a new target bearing angle estimation method for ship-borne high-frequency surface-wave radar (HFSWR) is presented. This new method is designed to give bearing angle estimation of ship targets. It relies on platform motion instead of antenna aperture to acquire bearing angle resolvi...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE journal of oceanic engineering 2021-07, Vol.46 (3), p.919-926
Hauptverfasser: Wen-Long, Tian, Gao-Peng, Li, Bin, Zhao, Rongqing, Xu
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In this article, a new target bearing angle estimation method for ship-borne high-frequency surface-wave radar (HFSWR) is presented. This new method is designed to give bearing angle estimation of ship targets. It relies on platform motion instead of antenna aperture to acquire bearing angle resolving capability, and hence can be applied to ship-borne HFSWRs that only have very small antenna arrays, and gives small vessels over-the-horizon (OTH) detection capability. This new method requires little modification to existing HFSWR hardware, and only a small amount of additional memory and computing power is needed. Both theoretic analysis and implementation details are given in this article. The new method is tested using real-measured ship-borne HFSWR radar data. The test result proved the effectiveness of the new method.
ISSN:0364-9059
1558-1691
DOI:10.1109/JOE.2020.3039354