Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (6): 1283-1289.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1001-506X.2020.06.11

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PQ-FB-2D-ESPRIT algorithm for parameter estimation of 2D-GTD model

Shuyu ZHENG1,2(), Xiaokuan ZHANG1(), Binfeng ZONG1(), Jiahua XU2(), Jiang LI2()   

  1. 1. Air and Missile Defense College of Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an 710051, China
    2. The graduate school of Air Force Engineering University, Xi'an 710051, China
  • Received:2019-09-05 Online:2020-06-01 Published:2020-06-01
  • Supported by:
    国家自然科学基金(61701528);目标与环境电磁散射辐射国防科技重点实验室创新基金(STES201401-1)

Abstract:

2D-estimating signal parameter via rotational invariance techniques (2D-ESPRIT) is a classical algorithm to estimate parameters of the two dimensional (2D) geometric theory of diffraction (GTD) model. However, the parameter estimation accuracy and noise robustness of 2D-ESPRIT are poor as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) decreases. To solve the problem, a polarized-quadratic-forward-backward-2D-ESPRIT (PQ-FB-2D-ESPRIT) algorithm is proposed, which improves noise robustness and parameter estimation performance effectively. The improved algorithm makes full use of the polarization information of radar targets, squares the covariance matrix and performs forward-backward smoothing on the novel covariance matrix. Therefore, the parameter estimation performance and data utilization are improved significantly by this improved algorithm. Simulation experiments verify that the proposed PQ-FB-2D-ESPRIT algorithm has a better noise robustness and more stable parameter estimation performance than the classical 2D-ESPRIT algorithm, forward-backward-2D-ESPRIT (FB-2D-ESPRIT) algorithm and quadratic-FB-2D-ESPRIT (Q-FB-2D-ESPRIT) algorithm. Based on the GTD model parameters estimated by different algorithms, the positioning accuracies of scattering centers are compared, which can validate the superiorty and effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Key words: parameter estimation, scattering center, 2D-geometric theory of diffraction (2D-GTD) model, 2D-estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques (2D-ESPRIT) algorithm, conjugate matrix

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