Multifractal Modelling of Aircraft Echoes from Low-resolution Radars Based on Structural Functions

摘要

As a kind of complex targets, the nonrigid vibration and attitude change of an aircraft as well as the rotation of its rotating parts will induce complex nonlinear modulation on its echo from low-resolution radars. If one performs the multifractal analysis of measures on an aircraft echo, it may offer a fine description of the dynamic characteristics which induce the echo structure. On basis of introducing multifractal theory based on structural functions, the paper models real recorded aircraft echo data from a low-resolution radar by using the random walk process and the incremental process respectively, and investigates the application of echo multifractal characteristics in aircraft target classification with low-resolution radars. The analysis shows that aircraft echoes from low-resolution radars have clear multifractal characteristics, and one should take an aircraft echo series as a random walk process to perform the multifractal analysis. The experimental results validate the classification method based on multifractal signatures.