Analysis about the speckle of radar high resolution range profile

The aspect sensitivity is the main problem in radar automatic target recognition using high resolution range profile (HRRP). In the traditional viewpoint,HRRPs are assumed to be highly similar if the aspect variation is not enough to cause range migration. However,some experiments in anechoic chambers don’t agree with the assumption. Particularly,some abnormal HRRPs often occur in the measured data. Based on the scattering center model,this paper focuses on the reason of abnormal HRRP,which is named as the speckle. The theoretical model of speckle is established and the "spurious dual peaks" feature of the speckled HRRP is analyzed. Then the occurrence condition of speckle is concluded,and so is the relationship between the speckle probability in HRRP and radar carrier frequency. At last,the experiment in an anechoic chamber is used to verify all the analyses about the speckle.