First experimental results on the feasibility of noise radar systems on fast moving platforms. Issue 6 (1st March 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wasserzier, C.; Galati, G.
• Is Part Of: Electronics letters. Volume 55:Issue 6(2019)
• Page Start: 344
• Page End: 345
• Publication Date: 2019-03-01
• Subjects: radar signal processing -- military aircraft -- radar antennas -- radar detection -- Doppler radar -- airborne radar -- object detection -- military radar; noise radar systems -- fast moving platform -- forward‐looking radars -- fighter aircrafts -- missiles -- low Doppler tolerance -- computational intense Doppler compensation -- continuous‐emission noise radar -- radar platform -- moving target detection; Electronics -- Periodicals; 621.381
• DOI: 10.1049/el.2018.7511
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-5194

Abstract

Abstract : Forward‐looking radars are essential sensors for many fast moving platforms such as fighter aircraft and missiles. Despite its multiple benefits, noise radar has not yet been used for this task because of the low Doppler tolerance of its waveform and the associated need for computational intense Doppler compensation. This Letter presents the very first experimental results of a continuous‐emission noise radar whose antennas are oriented along the direction of proper motion of a car operating as a radar platform at a significant speed. To the best of the authors' knowledge, no experiments of this kind have been published to date. Very likely, the results presented here are the first ones showing moving target detection by a noise radar on a fast moving platform.