Range Sidelobe Iterative Suppression Algorithm for Extended Target with Non-Grid Multiple Scattering Points

Abstract

This paper concentrates on extended targets to suppress high sidelobes in non-grid multiple scattering points. Notice that the problem essentially resolves the high sidelobes of the non-grid multiple scatterers after locating positions; we proposed a novel iterative algorithm based on an adaptive pulse compression algorithm on the basis of an off-grid position estimation. First, the grid offsets of the multiple scattering points through decoherence and super-resolution techniques are estimated by employing an enhanced MUSIC algorithm. Then, an optimization model is constructed for the non-grid multiple scattering points of the target. Finally, a sidelobe suppression algorithm based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion is presented. Numerical results reveal that the proposed algorithm can achieve better estimation performance on the offsets of the non-grid multiple scattering points, while it suppresses range sidelobes effectively.

Keywords

• non-grid multiple scattering points
• range sidelobe
• improved MUSIC algorithm
• iterative suppression
• minimum mean square error