Fast Implementation of Approximated Maximum Likelihood Parameter Estimation for Frequency Agile Radar under Jamming Environment

Abstract

A computationally efficient target parameter estimation algorithm for frequency agile radar (FAR) under jamming environment is developed. First, the barrage noise jamming and the deceptive jamming are suppressed by using adaptive beamforming and frequency agility. Second, the analytical solution of the parameter estimation is obtained by a low-order approximation to the multi-dimensional maximum likelihood (ML) function. Due to that, fine grid-search (FGS) is avoided and the computational complexity is greatly reduced.