Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (9): 2913-2924.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2025.09.13

• Sensors and Signal Processing • Previous Articles    

Recursive Radon-Fourier transform method with pre-MTI for target echo integration in clutter background

Haibo WANG(), Tao BA(), Wenhua HUANG(), Yuchuan ZHANG(), Jun ZHUANG(), Haichuan ZHANG()   

  1. Advance Science and Technology on High Power Microwave Laboratory,Northwest Institute of Nuclear Technology,Xi’an 710024,China
  • Received:2024-05-15 Online:2025-09-25 Published:2025-09-16
  • Contact: Haibo WANG E-mail:xmuwhb@163.com;batao@nint.ac.cn;huangwenhua@nint.ac.cn;zhangyuchuan@nint.ac.cn;zhuangjun@nint.ac.cn;zhanghaichuan@nint.ac.cn

Abstract:

The time sequence of radar systems is divided into fixed coherent processing intervals (CPIs), only by receiving the echo data in an complete CPI can the Radon-Fourier transform (RFT) method be applied for coherent accumulation, resulting in a processing delay of at least one CPI in the system. In regard to this, a recursive RFT method is proposed for pre-moving target indication (Pre-MTI), which breaks through the limitation that the RFT method requies the echo data in a complete CPI. Each time the echo data is received, coherent accumulation can be implemented, and theoretically the system processing delay is the same as the radar working repetition cycle. This paper provides a theoretical analysis of the coherent accumulation gain, coherent accumulation time, and improvement factor of the algorithm, and provides corresponding analytical derivations. Simulation result shows that the Pre-MTI processing can effectively suppress clutter, and the recursive RFT transformation method can effectively accumulate echoes of moving targets. The signal to noise ratio and velocity resolution increase with the increase of recursive pulses number. The system delay for coherent accumulation realized by the recursive RFT transform method is reduced, and theoretically the shortest delay can reach the repetition period of the radar.

Key words: time-range combination, coherent integration, moving target indication (MTI), Radon-Fourier transform (RFT)

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