An Adaptive Parameter Estimation Algorithm of Radar Linear Frequency Modulation Signal Based on Nonlinear Transform Under Different Alpha Stable Distribution Noise Environments

In order to address the impact of alpha stable distribution noise in the field of parameter estimation of radar linear frequency modulation (LFM) signal, the Lv’s distribution (LVD) class algorithms have been proposed in recent works. However, they just can be applied under the single noisy environment and suffered severe performance degradation at low signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs). In this article, an adaptive nonlinear function LVD (ANF-LVD) algorithm is proposed, different from the traditional LVD algorithms, which makes full use of the geometric information of the LFM signal to adapt to different alpha stable distribution noise environments. Then, based on the geometric information of the LFM signal, an appropriate nonlinear function is selected to suppress the noise under different alpha stable distribution noise environments, which has high parameter estimation accuracy even under an extremely low SNR environment. Simulation experiments show that the proposed algorithm has stronger adaptability and higher parameter estimation accuracy than the traditional LVD algorithm under different alpha stable distribution noise environments.