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Fun-Bin Duh and Chia-Feng Juang
Department of Electronic Engineering
Feng Chia University
Taichung, 407 Taiwan
*Department of Electrical Engineering
National Chung Hsing University
Taichung, 402 Taiwan
An important study of the responses to the point target and the distributed target of
the radar echoes processed by a neural network pulse compression (NNPC) algorithm is
presented in this paper. For whatever the purpose of a radar system, both of the point
target and distributed target echoes are received simultaneously. It is always necessary
and helpful to discriminate them clearly while detecting the desired target, which will
reduce the influence for each other in pulse compression processing. However, in most
of the pulse compression algorithms, it is only considered the radar purpose to process
one type of the targets but neglect the other. This will make either the presence of a point
target¡¦s range sidelobes masking and corrupting the observation of the weak distributed
target nearby or a distributed target with extended range interfering with the detection of
the neighboring point target. By completely considering the interactions of a point target
with a distributed target, we acquire all the possible data occurred in the procedure. Using
these valid data, we can train the backpropagation (BP) network to construct it as a
well performance of NNPC. To compare with the traditional algorithms such as direct
autocorrelation filter (ACF), least squares (LS) inverse filter, and linear programming
(LP) filter based on 13-element Barker code (B13 code), the proposed NNPC provides
the requirements of high signal-to-sidelobe ratio, low integrated sidelobe level (ISL), and
high target discrimination ratio. Simulation results show that this NNPC algorithm has
significant advantages in targets discrimination ability, range resolution ability, and
noise rejection performance while processing the interaction of point target with distributed
target, which are superior to the traditional algorithms.
Received November 30, 2004; revised May 5, 2005; accepted June 8, 2005.
Communicated by Liang-Gee Chen.