This paper addresses the problem to design a transmit-subaperture multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar showing beam clusters with controlled sidelobe level both for the Tx-Rx pattern experienced from target and clutter and for the Rx-only pattern experienced by external interferences. A design strategy is proposed that provides a MIMO scheme with the desired characteristics, together with a low computational cost and a sensibly narrower main beam than the corresponding single-input-multiple-output scheme. An analysis of the accuracy achievable by the proposed scheme is presented by means of Cramér-Rao lower bound and Monte Carlo simulations. Moreover, an example application is shown using nonideal waveforms to show the practical effectiveness of this TS-MIMO scheme.


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    Title :

    Antenna Sidelobes Level Control in Transmit Subaperturing MIMO Radar


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    Publication date :

    2017-06-01


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    2032531 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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