International Journal of
Physical Sciences

  • Abbreviation: Int. J. Phys. Sci.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1992-1950
  • DOI: 10.5897/IJPS
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 2572

Full Length Research Paper

High resolution range profile based extraction of radar target length

Kuo Liao1*, Guan Gui1,2, Zhangxin Chen1 and Wanlin Yang1      
1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Electrical Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731 China. 2Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8579 Japan.  
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 05 August 2011
  •  Published: 09 October 2011

Abstract

Radar target identification using high resolution range profile (HRRP), the target length is an important feature due to that it can reduce the time of identification and mitigate noise redundancy. Traditional threshold methods with the different operators are highly sensitive to noise. In this paper, we proposed an adaptive difference operator for target length feature extraction from HRRP. Experimental results confirmed the proposed method effectively acquire the radial projection length of the target with high precision even in case of lower Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR).

 

Key words: Difference operator, target identification, HRRP, target length.