RADIOELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Using the statistical theory of optimization of radio engineering systems the optimal method of coherent radar imaging of surfaces in airborne synthetic aperture radar with planar antenna arrays is developed. This method summarizes several modes of terrain observation and it is fully consistent with current trends in the development of cognitive radars with the possibilities of radiation pattern restructuring in space and adaptive reception of reflected signals. Possible modifications of the obtained optimal method for the operation of high-precision airborne radars with a wide swath are presented. The idea is to create a theoretical basis and lay the foundations for its practical application in solving a wide range of issues of statistical optimization of methods and algorithms for optimal spatiotemporal signal processing in cognitive radar systems for the formation of both high-precision and global radar images. To implement the idea, the article highlights the concept of statistical optimization of spatio-temporal processing of electromagnetic fields in on-board cognitive radar systems, which will be based on the synthesis and analysis of methods, algorithms and structures of radar devices for coherent imaging, the study of limiting errors in restoring the spatial distribution of the complex scattering coefficient, the synthesis of optimal feedback for receiver and transmitter adaptations in accordance with a priori information about the parameters of the objects of study, the area of observation and the existing sources of interference. Objective is to develop the theory and fundamentals of the technical implementation of airborne radar systems for the formation of high-precision radar images in an extended field of view from aerospace carriers. Tasks. To reach the objective it is necessary to solve following tasks:
– formalize mathematical models of spatiotemporal stochastic radio signals and develop likelihood functional for observation equations in which the useful signal, receiver internal noise and interference radiation of anthropogenic objects are random processes;
– to synthesize algorithms for optimal processing of spatio-temporal stochastic signals in multi-channel radar systems located on aerospace-based mobile platforms;
- in accordance with the synthesized methods, to substantiate the block diagrams of their implementation;
– obtain analytical expressions for the potential characteristics of the quality of radar imaging and determine the class of probing signals and space scanning methods necessary to perform various tasks of radar surveillance;
‒ to confirm some of the theoretical results by simulation methods, in which to reveal the features of the technical implementation of aerospace remote sensing radar systems.

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