Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2020, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (1): 64-72.doi: 10.21629/JSEE.2020.01.08

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Design of synthetic aperture radar low-intercept radio frequency stealth

Wensheng CHANG1(), Haihong TAO1(), Yanbin LIU2(), Guangcai SUN1,*()   

  1. 1 National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
    2 School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an 710071, China
  • Received:2018-11-26 Online:2020-02-20 Published:2020-02-25
  • Contact: Guangcai SUN E-mail:victorycws@163.com;hhtao@xidian.edu.cn;rsp@163.com;gcsun@xidian.edu.cn
  • About author:CHANG Wensheng was born in 1980. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Xidian University, Xi'an, China. His research interests include synthetic aperture radar imaging. E-mail: victorycws@163.com|TAO Haihong was born in 1976. She received her M.S. degree in 2000 and her Ph.D. degree in 2004, both from Xidian University, Xi'an, China. She is currently a professor with the National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University. Her research interests include array signal processing, high speed real-time signal processing. E-mail: hhtao@xidian.edu.cn|LIU Yanbin was born in 1996. He received his B.S. degree in electronic information science and technology from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2017, where he is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in signal processing with the National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing. His research interests include synthetic aperture radar imaging. E-mail: ybliu rsp@163.com|SUN Guangcai was born in 1984. He received his master degree in communications engineering from Post and Telecommunication Institution, Xi'an, China, in 2006, and Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 2012. He is currently a full researcher with the National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, and also with the Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding, Xidian University. He has authored or coauthored one book and published over 50 papers. His research interests include imaging of several SAR modes, moving target detection and imaging. E-mail: gcsun@xidian.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the National Key R & D Program of China(2017YFC1405600);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(JB180213);This work was supported by the National Key R & D Program of China (2017YFC1405600) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (JB180213)

Abstract:

Not confined to a certain point, such as waveform, this paper systematically studies the low-intercept radio frequency (RF) stealth design of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) from the system level. The study is carried out from two levels. In the first level, the maximum low-intercept range equation of the conventional SAR system is deduced firstly, and then the maximum low-intercept range equation of the multiple-input multiple-output SAR system is deduced. In the second level, the waveform design and imaging method of the low-intercept RF SAR system are given and verified by simulation. Finally, the main technical characteristics of the low-intercept RF stealth SAR system are given to guide the design of low-intercept RF stealth SAR system.

Key words: synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging, low-intercept radio frequency (RF) stealth, low-intercept range, low-intercept waveform