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- Title
Effect and Compensation of Timing Jitter in Through-Wall Human Indication via Impulse Through-Wall Radar.
- Authors
Guofu ZHU; Jun HU; Tian JIN; Zhimin ZHOU
- Abstract
Impulse through-wall radar (TWR) is considered as one of preferred choices for through-wall human indication due to its good penetration and high range resolution. Large bandwidth available for impulse TWR results in high range resolution, but also brings an atypical adversity issue not substantial in narrowband radars -- high timing jitter effect, caused by the non-ideal sampling clock at the receiver. The fact that impulse TWR employs very narrow pulses makes little jitter inaccuracy large enough to destroy the signal correlation property and then degrade clutter suppression performance. In this paper, we focus on the timing jitter impact on clutter suppression in through-wall human indication via impulse TWR. We setup a simple timing jitter model and propose a criterion namely average range profile (ARP) contrast is to evaluate the jitter level. To combat timing jitter, we also develop an effective compensation method based on local ARP contrast maximization. The proposed method can be implemented pulse by pulse followed by exponential average background subtraction algorithm to mitigate clutters. Through-wall experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can dramatically improve through-wall human indication performance.
- Subjects
TIMING jitter; BANDWIDTHS; CLUTTER (Radar); IMPULSE response; EXPONENTIAL functions; ALGORITHMS; HUMAN mechanics
- Publication
Radioengineering, 2014, Vol 23, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
1210-2512
- Publication type
Article