Coherence of Radar Signals Reflected From Passive-Interference Sources

Abstract

We analyze the coherence degree of the radar signals reflected from the passive-interference sources with different spectral characteristics determined by different wind velocities. The entropy of the distribution of eigenvalues of the interference correlation matrix is used as a quantitative measure of the coherence degree of interference. It is shown that the entropy value can be used for estimating the maximum coefficient of the passive-interference suppression. The dependences of the coefficient of the passive-interference suppression on the rms width of the interference spectrum for various values of the process sampling length and the wavelength are given. The coherence of an additive mixture of the signals, which are reflected from the interference and the target, is estimated. It is shown that the coherence measure of radar signals in the form of the entropy of the distribution of the signal over eigensubspaces of its correlation matrix allows one to estimate the maximum subinterference visibility.