On Detection of Tangential Maneuvering Target via Transceiver Design for Airborne Radar

This paper deals with the detecting problem of tangential maneuvering target for airborne radar. To this end, we develop a transceiver design method via ambiguity function shaping which minimizes the clutter echo power under constant modulus, target peak-matching and signal-to-noise ratio loss constraints. Afterwards, we transform it into two subproblems, solving them alternatively to monotonically decrease the clutter echo power. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed transceiver design method can successfully achieve tangential maneuvering target detection in range-ambiguous clutter without prior information of clutter.