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mean δ<br />

ij<br />

= 50 Hz <strong>and</strong> variance Σ<br />

ij<br />

= 16 , denoted byδij<br />

N ( δij<br />

;50,16), <strong>and</strong> then, as discussed in Section<br />

3, the state-dependent ambiguity number transition probability is<br />

⎧Φ( Cx<br />

ij k<br />

−δij ; Σ<br />

ij ) if j = i<br />

⎪<br />

πij ( xk ) = ⎨1 −Φ( Cijx k<br />

−δij; Σ<br />

ij ) if j = i−1<br />

(52)<br />

⎪<br />

0 else<br />

⎪⎩<br />

A maximum target velocity v<br />

max<br />

= 3Mach is assumed in our simulation.<br />

We consider here a low PRF surveillance radar using a carrier frequency <strong>of</strong> 1.2 GHz <strong>and</strong><br />

transmitting trains <strong>of</strong> N<br />

d<br />

= 64 rectangular pulses with pulse width τ = 1.2 μs<br />

<strong>and</strong> PRF=860 Hz. Radar<br />

revisit interval is T<br />

R<br />

= 4 s . For the reader’s sake, the main surveillance radar parameters are<br />

summarized in Table I .After discretization <strong>and</strong> Doppler processing, the received data are transformed<br />

into the ambiguous range-Doppler maps. For low PRF surveillance radars, the measured range is<br />

unambiguous while the measured Doppler is ambiguous. Since we are primarily concerned with early<br />

warning <strong>of</strong> approaching targets, the range cells under consideration are limited to the<br />

furthest N<br />

r<br />

= 256 cells. Thus, after each visit, we obtained a 256× 64 ambiguous range-Doppler map. In<br />

the simulation, the unknown target’s power u k<br />

at each visit is r<strong>and</strong>omly drawn from an exponential<br />

distribution with average return power u . Note that we ignore the power variation caused by the<br />

changing range since the range variation is small in comparison to the distance between the target <strong>and</strong><br />

radar. The SNR is defined in range-Doppler domain. The SNR <strong>of</strong> the target at kth visit is expressed<br />

2<br />

as (SNR) = 10log( u / σ ) .<br />

k<br />

k<br />

Table I Radar System Parameters<br />

It’s clear that SNR experienced by the target varies at each visit due to the variation <strong>of</strong> target power. In<br />

the following, in order to characterize the detection performance <strong>of</strong> the proposed TBD algorithms, we<br />

define an average SNR as<br />

2<br />

SNR = 10log( u / σ ) (53)<br />

Notice that, since we assume the number <strong>of</strong> coherently processed pulses N<br />

d<br />

= 64 , the average received<br />

SNR per pulse is obtained by subtracting 10log 64 18dB from the reported values in range-Doppler<br />

domain.<br />

Fig.7 shows a mesh plot <strong>of</strong> the reflected power in ambiguous range-Doppler maps. The target is<br />

located at cell (231, 14). When the SNR is high (13dB) <strong>and</strong> it’s easy to discern the target as a high<br />

peak (Fig.7(a)). When the SNR is relative low (10dB), it’s not easy to distinguish the target from the<br />

noise (Fig.7(b)). TBD procedures provide a way to improve the detestability <strong>of</strong> low SNR target by<br />

jointly processing several range-Doppler maps. In the following simulation, we set the number <strong>of</strong><br />

jointly processed ambiguous range-Doppler maps to K = 6 .<br />

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