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Separation of Intercepted Multi-Radar Signals Based on Parameterized Time-Frequency Analysis

  • W. L. Lu EMAIL logo , J. W. Xie , H. M. Wang and C. Sheng
Published/Copyright: June 2, 2016
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Abstract

Modern radars use complex waveforms to obtain high detection performance and low probabilities of interception and identification. Signals intercepted from multiple radars overlap considerably in both the time and frequency domains and are difficult to separate with primary time parameters. Time–frequency analysis (TFA), as a key signal-processing tool, can provide better insight into the signal than conventional methods. In particular, among the various types of TFA, parameterized time-frequency analysis (PTFA) has shown great potential to investigate the time–frequency features of such non-stationary signals. In this paper, we propose a procedure for PTFA to separate overlapped radar signals; it includes five steps: initiation, parameterized time-frequency analysis, demodulating the signal of interest, adaptive filtering and recovering the signal. The effectiveness of the method was verified with simulated data and an intercepted radar signal received in a microwave laboratory. The results show that the proposed method has good performance and has potential in electronic reconnaissance applications, such as electronic intelligence, electronic warfare support measures, and radar warning.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Received: 2015-11-14
Published Online: 2016-6-2
Published in Print: 2016-9-1

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