Feature Extraction for Moving Targets Based on the Statistical Characteristics of Echo Amplitude with the L-Band Fully Polarimetric Radar

Chuang Zhang, Yaxin Mu, Zhenghuan Xia, Shichao Jin, Fuzhan Yue, Xin Liu, Lanqing Zhang, Zhixin Tian, Zongqiang Liu, Yao Zhang, Wenning Gao, Tao Zhang, Zhilong Zhao, Ying Zhang

Remote Sensing(2022)

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Abstract
Non-imaging radar can achieve the detection and localization of moving targets, but it faces difficulties in the classification of targets. Aiming for the application of moving target classification by low/medium resolution non-imaging radar, this paper proposes a novel feature extraction method, based on the statistical characteristics of echo amplitude with the L-band fully polarimetric radar. A feature plane, composed of the 3rd-order central moment (skewness) and 4th-order central moment (kurtosis) as the statistical characteristics of the echo envelope, is established. In addition, two types of moving targets, pedestrians and non-motorized vehicles, are able to be effectively distinguished according to whether the echo signals of different polarizations have overlapping areas in the feature plane. The L-band fully polarimetric radar has been developed and field experiments have been conducted. The experimental results verify that the kurtosis and skewness of the fully polarimetric echo amplitude of the pedestrians are very close, and there is an overlapping area in the feature plane, while the statistical characteristics of the fully polarimetric echo signal of non-motor vehicles are different, and there is no overlapping area in the feature plane. This proposed feature extraction method has the advantage of being simple and robust, compared to the traditional imaging approach.
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