A Multiple-Jammer Deceptive Jamming Method Based on Particle Swarm Optimization Against Three-Channel SAR GMTI

Abstract

Traditional deceptive jamming methods effectively generate false targets against three-channel synthetic aperture radar ground moving target indication (SAR GMTI). However, effectiveness of traditional methods is limited to azimuth distance between two jammers. When the distance requirement is not satisfied, the jamming amplitude coefficients will be too high to be used by jammers. To overcome this disadvantage, a novel multiple-jammer deceptive jamming method is proposed. The intercepted radar signal is retransmitted and performed by amplitude and time-delay modulation. Then, jamming signal is first modeled as a polynomial function where the polynomial order is equal to the number of jammers. The interferometric phase difference between a moving target and a false target is utilized as an objective function, the azimuth relocated position difference between a moving target and a false target is utilized as the constraint to reduce computational burden, and the optimal jamming amplitude coefficients are estimated by solving the optimization problem based on the particle swarm optimization (PSO). Hereby, the optimal jamming amplitude coefficients and gain calculated with the proposed method will be lower than those calculated with traditional methods when the distance requirement is not satisfied. By utilizing the optimal coefficients and jamming amplitude gain, a false target generated with the proposed method will be detected by displaced phase center antenna (DPCA) technique and be relocated in the desired position by along-track interferometry (ATI) technique. Experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Keywords

• Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)
• ground moving target indication (GMTI)
• displaced phase center antenna (DPCA)
• along-track interferometry (ATI)
• deceptive jamming
• particle swarm optimization (PSO)