Enhancing the SEM Signature via the Optimum Onset With a Bistatic and Cross-Polarization Radar Configuration

This paper assesses the feasibility of finding a time bin of optimum onset to improve the robustness of the resonance modes of a midsized aircraft target in the context of radar target identification subject to bistatic and polarization diversities. The approach utilizes the frequency data (noncoherent) to determine a reference onset and a reference resonant frequency set of interest and then employs the time data (coherent) to determine an optimum onset that leads to a minimum error between the reference and extractable mode frequencies. Both sets of data are subject to a qualitative assessment to investigate the impact of the bistatic and polarization radar configurations on the optimum onset to improve the mode extraction. The results show that an optimum onset, compared to the reference onset, is more immune to noise perturbation and has a better discriminative ability for same-class targets.