Range sidelobe suppression for FD-MIMO sonar imaging with FDCW pulses

Lei Chen, Xionghou Liu, Yixin Yang, Jianping Qian, Long Yang, Jiannan Zhu

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Abstract

A range sidelobe suppression method is proposed for frequency diverse multiple-input multiple-output (FD-MIMO) sonar imaging. Unlike traditional methods which suppress cross-correlation functions (CCFs) between transmitting waveforms as low as possible, we use band overlapped frequency diverse continuous wave (FDCW) pulses to obtain relatively high CCFs. We point out that these relatively high CCFs can fill the band gap between auto-correlation functions (ACFs) between neighboring FDCW pulses, thereby showing an ability of reducing the spectrum leakage. Furthermore, we apply an amplitude weight vector to these FDCW pulses to further reduce the spectrum leakage and hence, produce much low range sidelobes. Via theoretical analyses and numerical simulations, we show that the proposed method can produce a high-resolution range profile as well as a low range sidelobe level.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey, OCE 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509015375
DOIs
StatePublished - 28 Nov 2016
Event2016 OCEANS MTS/IEEE Monterey, OCE 2016 - Monterey, United States
Duration: 19 Sep 201623 Sep 2016

Publication series

NameOCEANS 2016 MTS/IEEE Monterey, OCE 2016

Conference

Conference2016 OCEANS MTS/IEEE Monterey, OCE 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityMonterey
Period19/09/1623/09/16

Keywords

  • Cross-correlation function
  • Multiple-input multiple-output sonar
  • Range sidelobe suppression
  • Sonar imaging

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