一种新体制的高频地波雷达设计与实现

传统高频地波雷达接收机与天线阵列由长电缆连接,存在成本高、架设难、不易维护等问题。本文提出了一种新体制的高频地波雷达系统,该系统将多通道接收机分为多个装配在接收机天线附近的独立的单通道接收单元,接收单元与天线之间采用短电缆连接模式,各个接收单元之间通过GPS/北斗进行时钟同步,通过无线方式进行参数配置和数据传输。在完成单通道接收单元设计与实现后,通过闭环实验和海边现场实验对整个新系统进行了检测,得到了稳定的海洋回波,证明了新体制雷达系统的可行性。     

双基地高频地波雷达系统布站研究

由发射机(T)和接收机(Rm)共站的单基地高频地波雷达增设分置的接收系统(Rb)构成的T/Rm-Rb双基地高频地波雷达系统用于海洋环境监测时,既可测得矢量流速度,又可消除风向模糊性,是目前高频地波雷达的发展趋势之一。该文首次从T/Rm-Rb系统的探测能力与海流测量误差两方面分析最佳基线长度和最佳双基地角范围,从而确定其布站原则,即:在确定T/Rm单基地雷达的位置后,先根据T-Rb双基地雷达设计指标中的最大探测距离和确定基线长度,然后根据T/Rm-Rb系统海流测量误差最小的原则确定最佳双基地角范围,从而确定T-Rb双基地雷达接收站Rb的位置。该布站原则可为双(多)基地高频地波雷达的海洋环境监测应用提供参考和依据。     

Privacy‐preserving multireceiver ID‐based encryption with provable security

Multireceiver identity (ID) based encryption and ID‐based broadcast encryption allow a sender to use the public identities of multiple receivers to encrypt messages so that only the selected receivers or a privileged set of users can decrypt the messages. It can be used for many practical applications such as digital content distribution, pay‐per‐view and multicast communication. For protecting the privacy of receivers or providing receiver anonymity, several privacy‐preserving (or anonymous) multireceiver ID‐based encryption and ID‐based broadcast encryption schemes were recently proposed, in which receiver anonymity means that nobody (including any selected receiver), except the sender, knows who the other selected receivers are. However, security incompleteness or flaws were found in these schemes. In this paper, we propose a new privacy‐preserving multireceiver ID‐based encryption scheme with provable security. We formally prove that the proposed scheme is semantically secure for confidentiality and receiver anonymity. Compared with the previously proposed anonymous multireceiver ID‐based encryption and ID‐based broadcast encryption schemes, the proposed scheme has better performance and robust security. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

A Dual-Polarized Planar-Array Antenna for S-Band and X-Band Airborne Applications

A new dual-frequency dual-polarized array antenna for airborne applications is presented in this paper. Two planar arrays with thin substrates (R/T Duroid 5880 substrate, with εr = 2.2 and a thickness of 0.13 mm) are integrated to provide simultaneous operation at S band (3 GHz) and X band (10 GHz). Each 3 GHz antenna element is a large rectangular ring-resonator antenna, and has a 9.5 dBi gain that is about 3 dB higher than the gain of an ordinary ring antenna. The 10 GHz antenna elements are circular patches. They are combined to form the array with a gain of 18.3 dBi, using a series-fed structure to save the space of the feeding line network. The ultra-thin array can be easily placed on an aircraft's fuselage, due to its lightweight and conformal structure. It will be useful for wireless communication, radar, remote sensing, and surveillance applications.     

综合孔径微波辐射计二阶量化数字相关器研究

微波辐射计作为一种无源遥感器,在遥感技术领域有着巨大的应用前景.传统的微波辐射计的空间分辨率受到天线孔径的限制.综合孔径微波辐射计利用了干涉测量原理和复相关技术,是一种可以有效地提高空间分辨率的新型辐射计.本文针对综合孔径微波辐射计的数字相关器进行了深入研究,分析论证了二阶量化数字相关器的工作机理,并对采用该种相关器的系统的信噪比进行了分析.初步的试验验证结果证明了该方案的有效性.     

A Virtual Antenna Beamforming (VAB) Approach for Radar Systems by Using Orthogonal Coding Waveforms

An innovative approach is introduced to form virtual transmitting and receiving radar antenna beams simultaneously by transmitting orthogonal coding waveforms from the antenna elements and digitally processing of their echoes at the receiver. Multiple virtual transmitting-receiving beams can be formed simultaneously by employing an equal number of beamforming filters without increasing transmitting power or antenna gain or resolution loss. The virtually formed antenna beams can provide equivalent antenna gains and spatial resolutions as the conventional phased arrays of the same size. Because the actual antenna radiation pattern can be made almost isotropic, the new system has low probability of intercept (LPI) property. With both transmitting and receiving beams virtually implemented through digital filtering, costly radiation phase shift used in phased arrays is not needed for beam scanning in the proposed system.      

Synthetic aperture radiometer systems

Aperture synthesis is an emerging technology for passive microwave remote sensing from space. It is an interferometric technique similar to earth rotation synthesis employed in radio astronomy in which pairs of small antennas and signal processing are used to obtain the resolution of a single large antenna. The technique has the potential to overcome the barriers that antenna size has plated on passive microwave remote sensing from space. The technique has been demonstrated successfully for remote sensing at L-band with the aircraft prototype ESTAR. New aircraft instruments are under development and proposals have been submitted for instruments to demonstrate this technology in space     

Applications of RF aperture-array spatially-bandpass 2-D IIR filters in sub-Nyquist spectrum sensing,wideband doppler radar and radio astronomy beamforming

The application of two-dimensional (2-D) infinite impulse response (IIR) spatially-bandpass (SBP) filters as a digital beamformer for a wide spectrum of practical applications spanning wireless cognitive radio communications, doppler radar, and radio astronomy instrumentation is discussed. The paper starts with an introduction of the recently proposed 2-D SBP filter. The first application is a spectrum sensing scheme for dynamic spectrum access based cognitive radios. A 2-D IIR SBP filter is used in conjunction with a sub-Nyquist wideband signal reconstruction technique to achieve aperture-array directional spectrum sensing using sub-Nyquist sparse sampling based on the recently reported Eldar algorithm. The second application is related to wideband pulse and continuous-wave frequency modulated Doppler radar sensing. The SBP filter is integrated with a wideband radar back-end connected to an electronically-steerable aperture antenna. A a low-complexity directional localization algorithm is presented, which estimates the range and angle of a target scatterer with a signal to interference ratio improvement of 10 dB. We also present applications of 2-D IIR SBP in the fields of classification and remote sensing of unmanned aerial vehicles. Finally, a digital aperture-array wideband beamforming model using the 2-D IIR SBP filters is presented for radio telescope systems based on dense aperture arrays and time-domain beamforming. A well-known example is the study of pulsar astrophysics using a highly-directional aperture antenna system. The 2-D IIR SBP beamformer is simulated as the digital backend of the time-domain beamforming system with array signals synthesized using measured time-domain signatures from the Crab pulsar obtained from the GAVRT. The SBP filter shows a gain of 12.3 dB with an order of magnitude lower circuit complexity compared to traditional phased-array digital beamformers. To obtain comparable levels of SINR improvement, the wideband phased-array beamformers require 48-point FFTs per antenna. Assuming the optimum three real-multiplications per complex multiplication for the Gauss algorithm, it is discovered that the proposed 2-D IIR SBP beamformers are more than 97 % lower in digital multiplier complexity compared to traditional FIR phased-array FFT-beamformers.     

Space-time cross-correlation functions for antenna array elements in a noise field

The importance of designing a radar (or communications) receiver to operate effectively in the presence of spatial noise creates the necessity for determining the space-time cross-correlation functions between antenna array elements. A representation of a general, polarized, nonisotropic noise process is used to determine the cross-spectral densities and cross-correlation functions between arbitrarily oriented dipole antenna array elements in the presence of a noise field only. Several examples have been worked out for isotropic noise to show the variation of the cross-correlated noise function vs. the spatial separation of the dipoles. One important result is that the noise cross correlation is shown to be a function of the receiver element spatial orientation when the elements are dipoles. For certain spatial orientations between dipoles it is possible to reduce the noise cross correlation between these antenna array elements to zero.     

Active microwave sensing of the Earth's surface--A mini review

Radar has been used for remotely sensing the surface of the land and sea since the middle of World War II, but only since the mid-1960's has this technique become widely used for civil purposes. The nature of radar backscatter and theoretical models that have been used to describe it are briefly described. The state of knowledge of radar return from both land and sea is summarized. The principal radar remote sensing instruments are briefly described. A summary is presented of applications of sidelooking radar to observing the land and of various radar sensors (SLAR, scatterometers, altimeters) to observing the sea. Finally, the future of this technique is assessed both in terms of the applications and instruments to be expected during the remainder of the 1970's and the following decade and in terms of research that is needed for radar remote sensing to realize its full potential.     

基于机电耦合的有源相控阵天线辐射和散射特性综合优化

针对有源相控阵天线的雷达散射截面(Radar Cross Section,RCS)计算复杂、缩减困难,以及RCS与辐射性能难以兼顾问题,基于阵面结构变形与安装引起的辐射单元位置偏移分析,利用辐射单元相位误差,建立了有源相控阵天线阵列散射因子RCS的机电耦合模型.并基于该耦合模型,应用粒子群优化算法,优化阵面所有辐射单元的安装高度,以实现有源相控阵天线辐射性能和散射性能的全优.仿真结果表明,所建立的耦合模型及综合优化方法能够在保证有源相控阵天线辐射性能的条件下,有效缩减其RCS,具有重要的工程应用价值.     

Performance of feedback and switch space diversity 900 MHz FM mobile radio systems with Rayleigh fading

A theoretical and experimental comparison of performance has been made between two types of predetection switching space diversity mobile radio systems. This comparison was made at a frequency of 840 MHz using simulated Rayleigh fading for a vehicle speed of about 80 mi/h. The switch diversity system was a conventional receiver antenna switching technique with two simulated physically separated receiving antennas and a single transmitting antenna. The feedback diversity system used a single receiving antenna with two simulated physically separated transmitting antennas. The transmitting antennas were switched remotely from the receiver. The difference in the performance of the two systems was shown to be primarily due to time delay inherent in the remote antenna switching technique.     

频率步进探地雷达及其在地雷探测中的应用

频率步进方法是探地雷达技术的工作体制之一,与时域无载频脉冲体制的探地雷达技术相比,在探测性能上具有较多的优越性.本文在简述其工作原理的基础上,介绍了作者研制的一种频率步进探地雷达系统,该系统主要用于对地雷目标进行三维成像探测.在研制该雷达系统过程中,对已有的反对称Vivaldi天线提出了改进设计.实验测量结果表明,本文研制的反对称Vivaldi天线与传统的同类天线相比,性能更加优越.同时,为了得到更加清晰的地雷图像,本文还分别引入了f-k偏移成像方法和合成孔经雷达(SAR)处理技术对雷达探测信号进行处理,得到了满意的结果.探测实例表明,频率步进探地雷达系统能够实现对浅层地下地雷目标的高分辨率三维成像探测.     

Wide-frequency-band radar array antenna system with suppressed grating lobes

When array antennas are used for wide-frequency operation a difficulty with grating lobes is encountered at the upper frequency end of the operating band. This paper points out that the use of arrays for transmission and reception with different interelement spacings can be used to extend the operating frequency band in a radar system. The principle of transmitting-receiving arrays with different illuminations was used by Mattingly [2] to lower the sidelobe level of a radar array antenna. Birge [3] used it to reduce the number of elements in an array while preserving the resolution. The same principle is used in this paper to extend the operating frequency bandwidth of a radar antenna system. Relationships for an optimized radar array antenna system are derived. The criterion for optimization is the maximum bandwidth with a given total number of elements. It is shown that in an optimized system the number of elements in one array antenna is one greater than in the other, and the ratio of interelement spacings is inversely proportional to the square of the number of elements in the respective arrays. Based on these conditions, a functionkis computed and tabulated. This function determines the number of grating lobes permissible in the specified angular sector, without overlap, as a function of the number of elements in the two arrays. An application to a high frequency (HF) ionospheric radar antenna system, now under construction, is used as an illustration of the principles outlined in the paper.     

TerraSAR-X Instrument Calibration Results and Extension for TanDEM-X

Spaceborne remote sensing with synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has become an essential source of high-resolution and continuous Earth observation. Modern satellites like the German TerraSAR-X system provide state-of-the-art radar images with respect to operating flexibility and imaging quality. The outstanding performance of TerraSAR-X image products is achieved by an innovative calibration approach that minimizes systematic antenna and instrument characteristics. The active phased array X-band antenna is fed by 384 transmit/receive modules for electronic beam steering and shaping in the azimuth and elevation direction. The flexible radar instrument hosts an internal calibration system which guarantees the high radiometric stability of all SAR products. New techniques for antenna performance control have been successfully implemented, setting a high standard for next-generation SAR missions. This paper summarizes all essential calibration results of TerraSAR-X that cover internal instrument behavior. Furthermore, we give an outlook on the required bistatic calibration techniques for the future TanDEM-X mission that faces additional performance challenges when calibrating two TerraSAR-X satellites flying in close formation.      

Performance of Feedback and Switch Space Diversity 900 MHz FM Mobile Radio Systems with Rayleigh Fading

A theoretical and experimental comparison of performance has been made between two types of predetection switching space diversity mobile radio systems. This comparison was made at a frequency of 840 MHz using simulated Rayleigh fading for a vehicle speed of about 80 mi/h. The switch diversity system was a conventional receiver antenna switching technique with two simulated physically separated receiving antennas and a single transmitting antenna. The feedback diversity system used a single receiving antenna with two simulated physically separated transmitting antennas. The transmitting antennas were switched remotely from the receiver. The difference in the performance of the two systems was shown to be primarily due to time delay inherent in the remote antenna switching technique.     

一种新的数字阵列雷达接收机技术

高速ADC和先进DSP器件的进展使数字波束形成智能天线的实现成为现实。在传统的M单元天线阵系统中,每一单元都有各自的接收通道和ADC,设备量大。文中提出了一种适合于多通道数字阵列雷达接收系统的新型数字接收机结构,其主要思想是基于多个不同信号的带通采样原理实现数字阵列雷达接收机,新接收机结构使IF接收通道和基带采样ADC显著减少,功耗大大降低。阐述了数字阵列接收的数据模型和工作原理,分析了多信号带通采样信号频率和采样率的关系,给出了采样率选取的约束条件。新接收机在降低设备量的同时,还减小了接收系统通道间幅一相不一致性失真。     

System Implications of Large Radiometric Array Antennas

Current radiometric earth and atmospheric sensing systems in the centimeter wavelength range generally employ a directive antenna connected through a single terminal pair to a Dicke receiver. It is shown that this approach does not lend itself to systems with greatly increased spatial resolution. Signal-to-noise considerations relating to antenna efficiency force the introduction of active elements at the subarray level; thus if Dicke switching is to be used, it must be distributed throughout the system. Some possible approaches are suggested. The introduction of active elements at the subarray level is found to ease the design constraints on time delay elements, necessary for bandwidth, and on multiplebeam generation, required in order to achieve sufficient integration time with high resolution.     

机载雷达天馈单元自动测试系统的研究和设计

为了满足批产雷达天馈单元的测试要求,提高工作效率,需要设计一种新的测试方案。此测试方案应具有通用性、易用性,可以满足各种天馈单元及其组件的测试需求。介绍了一种以计算机控制仪表,实现机载雷达天馈单元自动测试的软硬件组成,着重讨论了该系统的设计方案,给出了该系统的设计硬件结构图、软件流程图,以及实现此系统的优点。在实际的测试过程中,能减少测试人员,缩短测试时间,提高工作效率。     

基于AIS信号的低空大气波导监测试验分析

鉴于低空大气波导对海上工作的雷达、通信系统的显著影响,提出了基于实测船舶自动识别系统(automatic identification system, AIS)信号的海上低空大气波导遥感新方法.首先讨论了不同大气折射环境下的AIS信号传播特性,验证了低空大气波导尤其表面波导对海上实际VHF频段AIS信号的显著影响;然后给出了2018年4月20日以及22日岸基AIS接收机接收功率平面位置分布图结果,利用接收站附近探空站的修正大气折射率剖面验证了大气波导是形成AIS信号远距离传播的主要原因;最后给出了基于AIS信号反演低空大气波导的步骤,采用粒子群优化算法得到根据单一方位接收功率的反演结果.该方法具有被动接收、时空分辨率高的优点,是当前雷达海杂波、卫星导航信号遥感探测大气波导的有益补充.