Adaptive Spectral Polarization Filter Design for Dual-polarization Weather Radar

Abstract

This paper proposes an adaptive filtering method called the Adaptive Moving spectral Depolarization Ratio (AMsDR) filter to mitigate the clutter for dual-polarization weather radar based on Jensen-Shannon divergence principle. Specifically, the spectral depolarization ratio in the range-Doppler domain is the main variable distinguishing precipitation from clutter. The AMsDR filter can remove the clutter and noise and retain precipitation based on the difference of the spectral polarization feature and the spectral continuity of precipitation and clutter. The AMsDR filter can adaptively select the filter threshold depending on the echo difference between precipitation and clutter in different azimuths. Thus, the performance of the proposed filter is better than that of the current methods.

Keywords

• dual-polarization
• weather radar
• jensen-shannon divergence
• clutter mitigation
• adaptive spectral polarimetric filter