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Coherent long-time integration and Bayesian detection with Bernoulli track-before-detect
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  • Murat Uney ,
  • Paul Horridge ,
  • Bernard Mulgrew ,
  • Simon Maskell
Murat Uney
University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool

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Abstract

We consider the problem of detecting small and manoeuvring objects with staring array radars. Coherent processing and long-time integration are key to addressing the undesirably low signal-to-noise/background conditions in this scenario and are complicated by the object manoeuvres. We propose a Bayesian solution that builds upon a Bernoulli state space model equipped with the likelihood of the radar data cubes through the radar ambiguity function. Likelihood evaluation in this model corresponds to coherent long-time integration. The proposed processing scheme consists of Bernoulli filtering within expectation maximisation iterations that aims at approximately finding complex reflection coefficients. We demonstrate the efficacy of our approach in a simulation example.
2023Published in IEEE Signal Processing Letters volume 30 on pages 239-243. 10.1109/LSP.2023.3253039