Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (9): 2735-2743.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.09.11

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Analysis of clutter characteristics and parameters selection for following configuration of spaceborne bistatic radar

Xiao TAN, Zhiwei YANG, Pengyuan HE, Xiangyu WU   

  1. National Key Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
  • Received:2021-12-14 Online:2023-08-30 Published:2023-09-05
  • Contact: Zhiwei YANG

Abstract:

The transmitter and receiver of spaceborne bistatic radar are placed on different satellites, bistatic configurations cause resolution spatial variation and severe space-time power spectrum broadening, posing great challenge to moving target indication. Based on strict slant range and satellite-earth relation, and taking into consideration the influence of resolution spatial variation, a signal model of clutter is established and the resolution spatial variation and its influence on the distribution of space-time power spectrum are analysed. Drawing on the full link evaluation mode and the index of output signal-to-clutter-plus-noise ratio loss, the performance under the influence of observation area and baseline is analysed and criteria for selecting key parameters in same orbital following configuration are specified. This paper provides references for system design of same orbital following configuration.

Key words: spaceborne bistatic radar, clutter model, clutter characteristics, orbital configuration

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