Passive radar device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9400323-B2
Application number	US-201113984936-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 18, 2011
Priority date	Feb 18, 2011
Publication date	Jul 26, 2016
Grant date	Jul 26, 2016

Abstract

A passive radar device includes: a pulse-by-pulse range compression unit executing cross-correlation processing between received signals of a direct wave and scattered wave on each of pulses divided by a direct-wave reception unit and a scattered-wave reception unit, and calculating a pulse-by-pulse range profile; a block-by-block Doppler processing unit calculating a first Doppler frequency spectrum by executing pulse-direction Fourier transform in block units each grouping plural pulses; a Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensation unit compensating a range-direction movement amount with respect to the first Doppler frequency spectrum on a Doppler-frequency-cell-by-Doppler-frequency-cell basis and on a block-by-block basis; and a block-direction Doppler processing unit calculating a second Doppler frequency spectrum by executing block-direction Fourier transform on an output from the Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensation unit.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A passive radar device, comprising:
a direct-wave reception antenna that receives a direct wave that directly arrives at the direct-wave reception antenna after being transmitted from a radio source;
a scattered-wave reception antenna that receives a scattered wave transmitted from the radio source and scattered by a target;
a direct-wave receiver that divides a received signal of the direct wave into pulses;
a scattered-wave receiver that divides a received signal of the scattered wave into pulses;
a pulse-by-pulse range compressor that executes cross-correlation processing between the received signal of the direct wave and the received signal of the scattered wave on each of the divided pulses and that calculates a pulse-by-pulse range profile;
a block-by-block Doppler processor that calculates a first Doppler frequency spectrum by executing pulse-direction Fourier transform in units of blocks each of which groups a plurality of pulses;
a Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensator that compensates a range-direction movement amount with respect to the first Doppler frequency spectrum on a Doppler-frequency-cell-by-Doppler-frequency-cell basis and on a block-by-block basis; and
a block-direction Doppler processor that calculates a second Doppler frequency spectrum by executing block-direction Fourier transform on an output from the Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensator.

2. A passive radar device according to claim 1 , wherein the pulse-by-pulse range compressor comprises:
a pulse-by-pulse FFT that divides the received signal of the direct wave and the received signal of the scattered wave into pulses, and that Fourier-transforms each of the pulses;
a complex conjugate multiplier that multiplies a complex conjugate signal of the received signal of the direct wave which is Fourier-transformed by the pulse-by-pulse FFT by the received signal of the scattered wave which is Fourier-transformed by the pulse-by-pulse FFT; and
a pulse-by-pulse IFFT that executes an inverse Fourier transform on an output from the complex conjugate multiplier.

3. A passive radar device according to claim 1 , wherein the Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensator comprises:
an FFT that executes a range-direction Fourier transform on the first Doppler frequency spectrum;
a multiplier that multiplies an output from the FFT by a phase function for range migration compensation for compensating a phase change corresponding to a block-direction range migration amount corresponding to each of the Doppler frequency cells in the first Doppler frequency spectrum; and
an IFFT that executes an inverse Fourier transform on an output from the multiplier.

4. A passive radar device according to claim 2 , wherein the Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensator comprises:
an FFT that executes a range-direction Fourier transform on the first Doppler frequency spectrum;
a multiplier that multiplies an output from the FFT by a phase function for range migration compensation for compensating a phase change corresponding to a block-direction range migration amount corresponding to each of the Doppler frequency cells in the first Doppler frequency spectrum; and
an IFFT that executes an inverse Fourier transform on an output from the multiplier.

5. A passive radar device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the pulse-by-pulse range compressor comprises:
a pulse-by-pulse FFT that divides the received signal of the direct wave and the received signal of the scattered wave into pulses, and that Fourier-transforms each of the pulses; and
a complex conjugate multiplier that multiplies a complex conjugate signal of the received signal of the direct wave which is Fourier-transformed by the pulse-by-pulse FFT by the received signal of the scattered wave which is Fourier-transformed by the pulse-by-pulse FFT; and

the Doppler frequency cell-associated range migration compensator comprises:
a multiplier that multiplies the first Doppler frequency spectrum by a phase function for range migration compensation for compensating a phase change corresponding to a block-direction range migration amount corresponding to each of the Doppler frequency cells in the first Doppler frequency spectrum; and
an IFFT that executes an inverse Fourier transform on an output from the multiplier.

6. A passive radar device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the block-by-block Doppler processor sets the blocks so that adjacent blocks overlap each other to set a bandwidth of a Doppler frequency spectrum in block-direction Doppler processing performed by the block-direction Doppler processor wider than a bandwidth of each Doppler filter obtained as a result of Doppler processing performed by the block-by-block Doppler processor; and
the passive radar device further comprises a block signal adder that coherently or incoherently adds an overlap of a bandwidth of the second Doppler frequency spectrum calculated by the block-direction Doppler processor.

7. A passive radar device according to claim 2 , wherein:
the block-by-block Doppler processor sets the blocks so that adjacent blocks overlap each other to set a bandwidth of a Doppler frequency spectrum in block-direction Doppler processing performed by the block-direction Doppler processor wider than a bandwidth of each Doppler filter obtained as a result of Doppler processing performed by the block-by-block Doppler processor; and
the passive radar device further comprises a block signal adder that coherently or incoherently adds an overlap of a bandwidth of the second Doppler frequency spectrum calculated by the block-direction Doppler processor.

8. A passive radar device according to claim 3 , wherein:
the block-by-block Doppler processor sets the blocks so that adjacent blocks overlap each other to set a bandwidth of a Doppler frequency spectrum in block-direction Doppler processing performed by the block-direction Doppler processor wider than a bandwidth of each Doppler filter obtained as a result of Doppler processing performed by the block-by-block Doppler processor; and
the passive radar device further comprises a block signal adder that coherently or incoherently adds an overlap of a bandwidth of the second Doppler frequency spectrum calculated by the block-direction Doppler processor.

9. A passive radar device according to claim 4 , wherein:
the block-by-block Doppler processor sets the blocks so that adjacent blocks overlap each other to set a bandwidth of a Doppler frequency spectrum in block-direction Doppler processing performed by the block-direction Doppler processor wider than a bandwidth of each Doppler filter obtained as a result of Doppler processing performed by the block-by-block Doppler processor; and
the passive radar device further comprises a block signal adder that coherently or incoherently adds an overlap of a bandwidth of the second Doppler frequency spectrum calculated by the block-direction Doppler processor.

10. A passive radar device according to claim 5 , wherein:
the block-by-block Doppler processor sets the blocks so that adjacent blocks overlap each other to set a bandwidth of a Doppler frequency spectrum in block-direction Doppler processing performed by the block-direction Doppler processor wider than a bandwidth of each Doppler filter obtained as a result of Doppler processing performed by the block-by-block Doppler processor; and
the passive radar device further comprises a block signal adder that coherently or incoherently adds an overlap of a bandwidth of the second Doppler frequency spectrum calculated by the block-direction Doppler processor.

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Assignees

• Suwa Kei
• Oshima Tadashi
• Nakamura Shohei
• Wakayama Toshio
• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Suwa Kei
• Oshima Tadashi
• Nakamura Shohei
• Wakayama Toshio

Classifications

• G01S13/5244

  Adaptive clutter cancellation (specially adapted for airborne MTI, G01S13/5242) · CPC title

• G01S7/285 Primary

  Receivers · CPC title

• G01S13/878

  Combination of several spaced transmitters or receivers of known location for determining the position of a transponder or a reflector (G01S13/874 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G01S13/46 Primary

  Indirect determination of position data · CPC title

• G01S13/5246

  post processors for coherent MTI discriminators, e.g. residue cancellers, CFAR after Doppler filters · CPC title