Polarization-Agile Jamming Suppression for Dual-Polarized Digital Array Radars

Abstract

In the realm of modern radar electronic warfare, hostile jamming signals with time-variant polarization states pose a significant challenge to the performance of host radars. This article presents a signal-processing scheme specifically designed to suppress polarization-agile jamming signals in dual-polarized digital array radars (DARs). By innovatively modeling the polarization-agile jamming signal as two orthogonal linearly polarized signals sharing the same elevation-azimuth angle, a direction-cosine estimation and association algorithm tailored for such signals is derived. Furthermore, a spatial covariance matrix reconstruction (CMR) method that uniquely extracts the time-varying polarization parameters of each jamming signal is developed. Building upon this, a spatial-polarization CMR method is devised to effectively suppress all polarization-agile jamming signals. The key innovation lies in achieving adaptive polarization matching during the cancellation process, which sets this scheme apart from conventional radar signal-processing approaches. Simulation results underscore the superiority of the proposed scheme, demonstrating significant performance enhancements over commonly used methodologies.