Experimental Study of Maritime Target Detection Using Passive Bistatic Radar

A passive bistatic radar system for the detection of moving targets at sea is designed in this paper. Through the continuous acquisition of non-cooperative radar direct wave and echo data, pulse compression, incoherent integration, MTI moving target processing, adaptive constant false alarm detection, and finally realize the detection of maritime targets. In this paper, the process of the proposed method is explained in detail, and then the field experiment is carried out. The experiment obtained clearly range-azimuth display image and PPI display image. Preliminary results of field experiments show that the system can successfully detect targets at sea.