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Stepped frequency signal is often used to synthesize high-resolution range profile, but redundant high-resolution range profile exists before synthesis. Two methods have been given to extract target from overlapped high-resolution range profile and analyzed to show how spurious peaks appear. This paper provides a reverse-count algorithm to resolve the problem of spurious peaks for moving target. This proposed method selects the peak with maximum amplitude as the extracted target and gets its position by using the number of samples prceding before the present sample position and the number of high-resolution range cell of the target. This proposed method is compared with the already given method and the result shows the ability of the proposed method to remove spurious peaks, it provides the foundation for high-resolution range profile.
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Lei, W., Long, T. & Han, Y. A novel imaging method in stepped frequency radar without spurious peaks. J. of Electron.(China) 18, 8–16 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11767-001-0002-y
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