A new feature extraction method using the amplitude fluctuation property of target HRRP for radar automatic target recognition

Abstract

Due to the aspect sensitivity of high-resolution range profile (HRRP), traditional radar HRRP target recognition methods usually use average profile within some target-aspect region as the target-aspect template. Actually, the amplitude fluctuation property of target HRRP also represents some feature information of the target. Based on the scattering center model, a new feature extraction method using the amplitude fluctuation property of target HRRP is proposed in this paper. The weighted HRRP feature extracted by the new method can represent the scatterer distribution in every range cell, thereby it can describe the scattering property of the target better. The experimental results based on measured data show that the new feature extraction method can greatly improve recognition performances.

Keywords

Radar automatic target recognition (RATR), HRRP, Feature extraction, Scattering center model, Average profile, Variance profile