Wideband distributed coherent aperture radar based on step frequency signal

Pi Lei Yin, Lu Yan, Zong Ao Zhang, Xiao Peng Yang*, Tao Zeng

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Abstract

The time synchronization is the key issue of wideband distributed coherent aperture radar. However, current time synchronization technology could not meet the requirement of high accuracy of time synchronization for wideband distributed coherent aperture radar. In this paper, a time synchronization method based on step frequency signal was proposed. Firstly, the impact of time synchronization error on coherent performance was investigated. And then, a time synchronization method by using step frequency signal to replace linear frequency modulated signal was proposed. According to theoretical analysis, the effect of time synchronization error on coherent performance was reduced in our proposed method, which reduced the requirement of time synchronization accuracy into a realizable level. At last, the effectiveness of proposed method was verified by simulations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)749-754
Number of pages6
JournalBeijing Ligong Daxue Xuebao/Transaction of Beijing Institute of Technology
Volume36
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2016

Keywords

  • Distributed coherent aperture radar
  • Step frequency signal
  • Time synchronization error
  • Wideband

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Yin, P. L., Yan, L., Zhang, Z. A., Yang, X. P., & Zeng, T. (2016). Wideband distributed coherent aperture radar based on step frequency signal. Beijing Ligong Daxue Xuebao/Transaction of Beijing Institute of Technology, 36(7), 749-754. https://doi.org/10.15918/j.tbit1001-0645.2016.07.017