Micro-Doppler Feature Extraction of Group Targets Using Signal Decomposition Based on Bessel Function Basis
ZHANG Qun HE Qifang LUO Ying
(Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University, Xi’an 710077, China)
(Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding, Xi’an 710077, China)
Micro-Doppler (m-D) feature extraction is significant for group target discrimination, while the methods for single target are invalid. An m-D feature extraction method of group targets is proposed based on signal orthogonal decomposition. First, the Sinusoidal Frequency-Modulated (SFM) form of m-D signals and the decomposition result of the phase term on k-resolution Bessel basis is deduced. The m-D frequency is coarsely estimated by the one-to-one relationship between frequencies and basis functions. Then an algorithm is introduced to reduce the error and thus a finer estimation is obtained. Finally, the m-D frequency of each target is extracted by discrete echoes without phase shift ambiguity. Simulation experiments validate the effectiveness, and show that the proposed method outperforms the Sinusoidal Frequency Modulation Fourier Transform (SFMFT)-based method and Average Magnitude Difference Function (AMDF)-based method in estimation precision.
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