A.А. Lavrov¹, I.К. Antonov², A.А. Kasaikin³, V.G. Ovchinnikov4, M.S. Ogorodnikov5
1,2,5 2 LLC «BG-Optics» (Moscow, Russia), LLC «Tour operator «Biblio Globus» (Moscow, Russia),
2,3,4 LLC «BG Market» (Moscow, Russia), JSC «NPP «Polet» (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia)
The article discusses the experimentally obtained characteristics of radar signals reflected from small-sized aerial targets such as a quadrocopter, with their long-term coherent accumulation. A brief description of the structural diagram of the experimental radar and its characteristics is given. The radar operates in the ten-centimeter wavelength range and emits a coherent-pulse signal. The duration of the emitted chirp pulse is 1 μs with a compression ratio of 15.
Algorithms for primary processing of signals in a computer are given, including compression of chirp signals and spectral analysis of the received implementation, which is equivalent to its coherent accumulation. The parameters of the generated radar image are determined. The characteristics of the targets used - the small-sized quadcopters Mavic and Phoenix – are given.
As a result of the experiments, it was shown that the tested small-sized air targets in the ten-centimeter wavelength range of the probing signal have their own coherence time sufficient for the coherent accumulation of the signal reflected from them for a time of at least 0.2 seconds.
The Mavic does not produce reflections from its rotating rotors. The main rotor of the Phoenix quadcopter creates spectral components in the image, concentrated along the speed axis in the form of maxima symmetrically located relative to the central mark of the target. The presence of this feature of the signal allows you to identify the type of target, highlight the target against the background of birds, and detect a stationary, hovering target. It is shown that the features of signals reflected from the ground, with long-term coherent accumulation, allow providing the minimum speed of the detected target, measured in fractions of a meter per second.
Lavrov А.А., Antonov I.К., Kasaikin А.А., Ovchinnikov V.G., Ogorodnikov М
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