Anti-interference method for HF radars by transmitting phase-modulated chirps

摘要

Radio frequency interference (RFI) is a major problem in high-frequency (HF) radars. Conventional filtering-involved RFI suppression methods may introduce distortions to the target signals of interest and often demand extra hardware costs. In this paper, a novel method for RFI suppression by using linearly or randomly phase-modulated (PM) chirps is proposed, which enables independent analyses of the target signal and the RFI. Furthermore, the directions of arrival (DOA) of the interference are used as constraints to ensure a better DOA estimation of the target. The effectiveness of the method is demonstrated by numerical simulation results. The method can greatly improve the anti-interference capabilities of HF radars and is extremely applicable in the portable and low-cost radar systems.