Robust Altitude Estimation Based on Spatial Sign Transform in the Presence of Diffuse Multipath for Very High Frequency Radar

Genhua CHEN; Baixiao CHEN

doi:10.11999/JEIT190554

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Genhua CHEN, Baixiao CHEN. Robust Altitude Estimation Based on Spatial Sign Transform in the Presence of Diffuse Multipath for Very High Frequency Radar[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2020, 42(5): 1297-1302. doi: 10.11999/JEIT190554

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Genhua CHEN, Baixiao CHEN. Robust Altitude Estimation Based on Spatial Sign Transform in the Presence of Diffuse Multipath for Very High Frequency Radar[J]. Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, 2020, 42(5): 1297-1302. doi: 10.11999/JEIT190554

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Robust Altitude Estimation Based on Spatial Sign Transform in the Presence of Diffuse Multipath for Very High Frequency Radar

doi: 10.11999/JEIT190554

Genhua CHEN^{1
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Baixiao CHEN²

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School of Information Engineering, Nanchang Institute of Technology, Nanchang 310099, China
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National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China

Funds: The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61401187), The Science Research of Jiangxi Provincial Department of Education(GJJ170990)

Received Date: 2019-07-24
Rev Recd Date: 2020-02-24

Available Online: 2020-03-21

Publish Date: 2020-06-04

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A robust spatial sign transform-based maximum likelihood method for low-elevation target altitude measurement is proposed in the presence of the non-Gaussian diffuse multipath component for Very High Frequency (VHF) radar. The spatial sign transform is implemented to the antenna array snapshots, reducing the influence of the outliers on array covariance matrix and the low elevation estimation algorithms, followed by computing the spatial Sign Covariance Matrix(SCM). Then the application of SCM to the Maximum Likelihood method(SCM-ML) is presented on the basis of the affine equivalence and preservation of the eigenstructure for robust low elevation estimation and height finding of VHF radar. The proposed method effectively solves the non-Gaussian property of the diffuse multipath component and improves the robustness of low elevation estimation. Simulation result and real data demonstrate the robustness and validation of the SCM-ML method.
- Very High Frequency (VHF) radar,
- Spatial sign transform,
- Diffuse component,
- Non-Gaussian,
- Altitude estimation

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