Performance Analysis of Adaptive Polarization Filters

Abstract

In the dynamic electromagnetic environments, a polarization estimator is usually utilized by an adaptive polarization filter to acquire the knowledge of the polarization of the interference field, then optimal polarization is calculated for polarization filtering. In this sense, an adaptive polarization filter can be modeled as an open loop cascading system of a polarization estimator, an optimum polarization calculator and a polarization filter. Based on the dual channel orthogonal polarization measurements, theoretical performance analysis of the polarization estimation is derived. It is proved that the polarization estimation error obeys the Rayleigh distribution approximately. Finally, by studying the transmission process of the estimation error in a polarization filter, a series of analytic formulae on the performances of adaptive polarization filters are derived, which statistically reveal the relationship between the filtering performance and the signal to noise ratio clearly.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 14, 2005
Accession Number
ADA445264

Entities

People

  • Dahai Dai
  • Shunping Xiao
  • Xuesong Wang
  • Zhaowen Zhuang
  • Zhenhai Xu

Organizations

  • National University of Defense Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Covariance
  • Dual Channel
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Engineering
  • Estimators
  • Filters
  • Filtration
  • Frequency
  • Linear Polarization
  • Mathematical Models
  • Measurement
  • Models
  • Noise
  • Polarization
  • Probability
  • Radar

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Calculus or Mathematical Analysis
  • Radar Systems Engineering.