The Impact of Channel Errors in Passive Coherent Location Radar using FM Base Stations

This paper presents the impact of channel errors for an FM based passive bistatic radar system mounted on mobile platforms for ground moving target indication (GMTI). Reciprocal filter, which is effective compared to conventional matched filter (MF), is performed for the pulse compression stage to remove the time-variant structure of the signal. The displaced phase centre antenna (DPCA) method is applied for the clutter cancellation and target detection. This technique is effective if the hardware is well calibrated. Thereby, the influences of calibration errors between the receiving channels are studied for different FM waveforms. The simulation results of the amplitude and phase errors are analysed separately.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

Channel errors, DPCA, GMTI, passive radar, reciprocal filter

The Impact of Channel Errors in Passive Coherent Location Radar using FM Base Stations

Keywords:

Channel errors, DPCA, GMTI, Passive radar, Resiprocal filter,

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