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Abstract

In this paper, we present the chaotic verification for angular glint of complex radar target. Angular glint is a key factor in the generation loss probability in radar detections, and the intrinsic physical characteristic and suppression techniques of glint have been a hot topic in radar signal analysis. In this paper, the radar angular glint samples of a typical complex target are calculated by the Greco method based on Phase Gradient method. The simulated glint series fit the prerequisites of chaos for deterministic, nonlinear generation and no regularities in time domain, therefore the analysis the chaotic traits is required. We propose the design of chaotic verification flow, which is proved to be efficient and effective by the experiment of Lorenz Attractor signal model, and the details have been explained. The algorithm flow begins with the determination of optimum time lag and minimum embedding dimension, and is followed by the time-delay reconstruction in phase space. The results are presented with three qualitative verification results of attractor geometry, Poincare section and principal component analysis and two quantitative results of correlation dimension and largest Lyapunov exponent for the glint series. With comparison with results obtained by Lorenz attractor, the chaotic traits of angular glint data are verified. Therefore, the paper has proposed new possible reduction and prediction ideas to refrain angular glint in the digital processing unit of radar receiver in the future.

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