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Impacts of space-time-frequency synchronization errors onwideband target echo characteristics of bistatic/multistatic radar

Minghai Pan1, Qinghua Han1,*, Shufeng Gong1, Weijun Long1,2, and Haitao Wei3   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Radar Imaging and Microwave Photonics, College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 211106, China;
    2. Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology, Nanjing 210039, China;
    3. State Key Laboratory of Satellite Navigation System and Equipment Technology, Shijiazhuang 050081, China
  • Online:2016-06-25 Published:2010-01-03

Abstract:

 

Bistatic/multistatic radar has great potential advantages over its monostatic counterpart. However, the separation of a transmitter and a receiver leads to difficulties in locating the target position accurately and guaranteeing space-timefrequency synchronization of the transmitter and the receiver. The error model of space-time-frequency synchronization in a motion platform of bistatic/multistatic radar is studied. The relationship between the space synchronization error and the transmitter platform position, receiver platform position, moving state, and beam pointing error, is analyzed. The effect of space synchronization error on target echo power is studied. The target scattering characteristics are restructured by many separate scattering centers of the target in high frequency regions. Based on the scattering centers model of the radar target, this radar target echo model and the simulation method are discussed. The algorithm of bistatic/multistatic radar target echo accurately reflects the scattering characteristics of the radar target, pulse modulation speciality of radar transmitting signals, and spacetime- frequency synchronization error characteristics between the transmitter station and the receiver station. The simulation of bistatic radar is completed in computer, and the results of the simulation validate the feasibility of the method.