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A New Method of Jointly Applying Monostatic and Bistatic Space-Based Radar |
Li Hun; Tang Jun; Peng Ying-ning |
Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China |
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Abstract Single orbit bistaitc space based radar is composed of two radars in the same orbit. The paper analyzes the clutter angle-Doppler spectrum in this radar system, and finds out that minimum detectable velocity(MDV) is dependent on detecting angles and will degrade a lot in some angles. A new combined monostatic and bistatic radar mode with potential savings in size and weight of the solar array-battery system on-board each satellite is then introduced and angle threshold is calculated. Simulation results with Space-Time Adaptive Processing(STAP) also verify the improved detection performance.
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Received: 27 September 2006
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