MMSE Beam Forming on Fast-Scanning Phased Array Weather Radar

被引：91

作者：

Yoshikawa, Eiichi ^{[1
,2
]}

Ushio, Tomoo ^{[1
]}

Kawasaki, Zen ^{[1
,3
]}

Yoshida, Satoru ^{[1
]}

Morimoto, Takeshi ^{[1
]}

Mizutani, Fumihiko ^{[4
]}

Wada, Masakazu ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Osaka Univ, Osaka 5650871, Japan

[2] Colorado State Univ, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA

[3] Egypt Japan Univ Sci & Technol E JUST, Alexandria 21934, Egypt

[4] Toshiba Co Ltd, Tokyo 2128581, Japan

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING | 2013年 / 51卷 / 05期

关键词：

Distributed targets; fast-scanning weather radar; phased array digital beam forming (DBF); PULSE-COMPRESSION; SIMULATION;

D O I：

10.1109/TGRS.2012.2211607

中图分类号：

P3 [地球物理学]; P59 [地球化学];

学科分类号：

0708 ; 070902 ;

摘要：

A fast-scanning phased array weather radar (PAWR) with a digital beam forming receiver is under development. It is important in beam forming for weather radar observation with temporally high resolution to form a stable and robust main lobe and adaptively suppress sidelobes with a small number of pulses in order to accurately estimate precipitation profiles (reflectivity, mean Doppler velocity, and spectral width). A minimum mean square error (MMSE) formulation with a power constraint, proposed in this paper, gives us adaptively formed beams that satisfy these demands. The MMSE beam-forming method is compared in various precipitation radar signal simulations with traditional beam-forming methods, Fourier and Capon methods, which have been applied in atmospheric research to observe distributed targets such as precipitation, and it is shown that the MMSE method is appropriate to this fast-scanning PAWR concept.

引用

页码：3077 / 3088

页数：12

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