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8 November 2017

The high-resolution range (HRR) profile is an important target signature in many applications (e.g., automatic target recognition), and the radar HRR profiling performance is highly dependent on radar transmitted waveforms. In this paper, we consider...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
709 Views
22 Pages

5 June 2026

High-resolution range profile (HRRP) target recognition has advanced with deep learning, yet most existing methods rely primarily on data-driven feature extraction and still face challenges in physical interpretability and noise robustness. To addres...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Target Detection, Imaging and Recognition (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,832 Views
19 Pages

Radar High-Resolution Range Profile Rejection Based on Deep Multi-Modal Support Vector Data Description

  • Yue Dong,
  • Penghui Wang,
  • Ming Fang,
  • Yifan Guo and ,
  • Lili Cao,
  • Junkun Yan and
  • Hongwei Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 February 2024

Radar Automatic Target Recognition (RATR) based on high-resolution range profile (HRRP) has received intensive attention in recent years. In practice, RATR usually needs not only to recognize in-library samples but also to reject out-of-library sampl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Remote Sensing, Radar Techniques, and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,403 Views
17 Pages

A Novel Method for Improving Quality of Oblique Incidence Sounding Ionograms Based on Eigenspace-Based Beamforming Technology and Capon High-Resolution Range Profile

  • Wuyong Zhang,
  • Tongxin Liu,
  • Guobin Yang,
  • Chunhua Jiang and ,
  • Yaogai Hu,
  • Ting Lan and
  • Zhengyu Zhao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 September 2022

Ground-based oblique incidence sounding (OIS) is an important means to investigate the ionosphere. As the OIS ionogram is a visual representation of the OIS parameters, such as group distance and maximum usable frequency (MUF), it is of great signifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Remote Sensing in Monitoring Ionospheric Physics and Ionospheric Weather Forecasting)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,809 Views
20 Pages

Noise-Robust Radar High-Resolution Range Profile Target Recognition Based on Residual Scattering Attention Network

  • Pengjun Huang,
  • Shuai Li,
  • Wentao Li,
  • Muhai Zheng and ,
  • Biao Tian and
  • Shiyou Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 November 2024

In recent years, radar automatic target recognition (RATR) utilizing high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs) has received significant attention. Approaches based on deep learning have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in HRRP recognition tasks. However...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,803 Views
25 Pages

16 January 2026

High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) represents the electromagnetic backscattering distribution of targets and plays a pivotal role in remote-sensing-based Automatic Target Recognition (RATR). However, in non-cooperative sensing scenarios, acquiring...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technical Developments in Radar—Processing and Application (2nd Edition))
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,177 Views
20 Pages

4 October 2024

Most existing target recognition methods based on high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs) use data from only one domain. However, the information contained in HRRP data from different domains is not exactly the same. Therefore, in the context of inver...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Target Recognition and Change Detection for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,180 Views
18 Pages

26 March 2021

Radar automatic target recognition is a critical research topic in radar signal processing. Radar high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs) describe the radar characteristics of a target, that is, the characteristics of the target that is reflected by t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue GPU Computing for Geoscience and Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,784 Views
23 Pages

30 March 2021

Millimeter-wave (W-band) radar measurements were taken for two maritime targets instrumented with attitude and heading reference systems (AHRSs) in a littoral environment with the aim of developing a multiaspect classifier. The focus was on resource-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Processing in Radar and Wireless Communication Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,967 Views
19 Pages

30 October 2024

A new estimation strategy on locations of two-dimensional target scattering centers for radar target recognition is developed by using multiple high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs). Based on the range information contained in multiple HRRPs obtaine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Target Detection, Imaging and Recognition)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,549 Views
9 Pages

23 September 2022

Time-modulated metasurfaces have attracted much attention due to their flexible manipulation of electromagnetic waves. Time-varying response leads to spread-spectrum and reallocation of energy. Thus, an amplitude-phase joint modulation (TAJM) method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,884 Views
11 Pages

Measurement and Analysis of Radar Signals Modulated by the Respiration Movement of Birds

  • Jiangkun Gong,
  • Jun Yan,
  • Deren Li,
  • Huiping Hu and ,
  • Deyong Kong,
  • Wenjing Bao and
  • Shangde Wu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 August 2022

Once, bird respiration was thought to be responsible for the 10 dB-level fluctuations in the radar signals of birds. Although, recently, many researchers provide evidence against this, there are almost no quantification measurements of the contributi...

(This article belongs to the Section Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
155 Views
26 Pages

26 October 2026

Dense fixed-wing UAV swarms can produce overlapping HRRPs, for which echo separation may truncate extended-target responses and propagate reconstruction errors. This paper proposes an ICWE + SPMP + FWDC framework for simultaneous multi-target ISAR im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue SAR Imaging and Intelligent Perception)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,693 Views
21 Pages

27 May 2024

Existing methods for inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) target recognition typically rely on a single high-resolution radar signal type, such as ISAR images or high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs). However, ISAR images and HRRP data offer repr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Target Recognition and Change Detection for High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,933 Views
17 Pages

22 November 2019

High-resolution range profile (HRRP) has attracted intensive attention from radar community because it is easy to acquire and analyze. However, most of the conventional algorithms require the prior information of targets, and they cannot process a la...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,590 Views
24 Pages

19 June 2025

High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) radar recognition suffers from data scarcity challenges in real-world applications. We present HRRPGraphNet++, a framework combining dynamic graph neural networks with meta-learning for few-shot HRRP recognition....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced AI Technology for Remote Sensing Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,946 Views
16 Pages

Near-Field IPO for Analysis of EM Scattering from Multiple Hybrid Dielectric and Conductor Target and High Resolution Range Profiles

  • Qingkuan Wang,
  • Yijin Wang,
  • Chuangming Tong,
  • Zhaolong Wang and ,
  • Ximin Li and
  • Tong Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 March 2023

Aiming at improving the accuracy and efficiency of scattering information from multiple targets in near-field regions, this paper proposes a near-field iterative physical optics (IPO) method based on a modified near-field Green’s function for t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Radar, Optical, Hyperspectral, Infrared, and Sonar Technology: Data Acquisition, Processing, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,944 Views
23 Pages

Two-Stream Deep Fusion Network Based on VAE and CNN for Synthetic Aperture Radar Target Recognition

  • Lan Du,
  • Lu Li,
  • Yuchen Guo,
  • Yan Wang and ,
  • Ke Ren and
  • Jian Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 October 2021

Usually radar target recognition methods only use a single type of high-resolution radar signal, e.g., high-resolution range profile (HRRP) or synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. In fact, in the SAR imaging procedure, we can simultaneously obtain...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in SAR Image Processing and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
8,359 Views
15 Pages

21 December 2017

The frequency of terahertz radar ranges from 0.1 THz to 10 THz, which is higher than that of microwaves. Multi-modal signals, including high-resolution range profile (HRRP) and Doppler signatures, can be acquired by the terahertz radar system. These...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,381 Views
14 Pages

27 September 2022

The traditional High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) target recognition method has difficulty automatically extracting target deep features, and has low recognition accuracy under low training samples. To solve these problems, a ship recognition meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Intelligence, Soft Computing and Communication Networks for Applied Science II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,502 Views
17 Pages

27 September 2017

Model training is a key technique for radar target recognition. Traditional model training algorithms in the framework of single task leaning ignore the relationships among multiple tasks, which degrades the recognition performance. In this paper, we...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,286 Views
24 Pages

An Interpretable Target-Aware Vision Transformer for Polarimetric HRRP Target Recognition with a Novel Attention Loss

  • Fan Gao,
  • Ping Lang,
  • Chunmao Yeh,
  • Zhangfeng Li and ,
  • Dawei Ren and
  • Jian Yang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 August 2024

Polarimetric high-resolution range profile (HRRP), with its rich polarimetric and spatial information, has become increasingly important in radar automatic target recognition (RATR). This study proposes an interpretable target-aware vision Transforme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Target Recognition and Detection Based on High Resolution Radar Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,527 Views
25 Pages

24 December 2024

The rapid and accurate reconstruction of the high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs) of high-speed targets from incomplete wideband radar echoes is a critical component in space target recognition tasks (STRTs). However, state-of-the-art HRRP reconstr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
223 Views
34 Pages

HRRP Target Recognition Method Assisted by Scattering Center Prior Fusion from SAR Images

  • Xinyu Chen,
  • Yongfeng Zhu,
  • Jianxiong Zhou,
  • Yibin Liu and ,
  • Zezhou Wu and
  • Pengcheng Guo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

31 October 2026

Accurate target prior information is an important basis for improving the detection and recognition performance of high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs). To address the insufficient reliability of prior templates in scattering-center-assisted HRRP t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Imaging Radar Signal Processing, Target Feature Extraction and Recognition)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,030 Views
14 Pages

Limited Sample Radar HRRP Recognition Using FWA-GAN

  • Yiheng Song,
  • Liang Zhang and
  • Yanhua Wang

12 August 2024

In radar High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) target recognition, the targets of interest are always non-cooperative, posing a significant challenge in acquiring sufficient samples. This limitation results in the prevalent issue of limited sample ava...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art and Future Developments: Short-Range Radar)
  • Article
  • Open Access
968 Views
26 Pages

11 March 2026

High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP)-based space object classification is severely limited by aspect sensitivity. Inspired by the intrinsic complementarity between HRRP and LiDAR point clouds, this work investigates the feasibility and effectiveness...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Processing and Analysis of Multi-Modal Remote Sensing Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,003 Views
20 Pages

MSDP-Net: A Multi-Scale Domain Perception Network for HRRP Target Recognition

  • Hongxu Li,
  • Xiaodi Li,
  • Zihan Xu,
  • Xinfei Jin and
  • Fulin Su

26 July 2025

High-resolution range profile (HRRP) recognition serves as a foundational task in radar automatic target recognition (RATR), enabling robust classification under all-day and all-weather conditions. However, existing approaches often struggle to simul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Target Recognition and Detection Based on High Resolution Radar Images)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,390 Views
17 Pages

Radar HRRP Feature Fusion Recognition Method Based on ConvLSTM Network with Multi-Input Gate Recurrent Unit

  • Wei Yang,
  • Tianqi Chen,
  • Shiwen Lei,
  • Zhiqin Zhao and ,
  • Haoquan Hu and
  • Jun Hu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 December 2024

Recently, the radar high-resolution range profiles (HRRPs) have gained significant attention in the field of radar automatic target recognition due to their advantages of being easy to acquire, having a small data footprint, and providing rich target...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Radar Systems for Target Detection and Tracking (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,786 Views
21 Pages

10 October 2020

A bi-static short-range elastic backscatter micro-lidar, named Colibri, has been developed for quantitative aerosol profiling with high range and temporal resolution within the first hundred meters. The geometric (i.e., overlap) and radiometric (i.e....

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,212 Views
24 Pages

Space Target Tracking with the HRRP Characteristic-Aided Filter via Space-Based Radar

  • Shuyu Zheng,
  • Libing Jiang,
  • Qingwei Yang,
  • Yingjian Zhao and
  • Zhuang Wang

3 October 2023

Approaching space target tracking is a typical and challenging mission in the space situational awareness (SSA) field. As the space-based radar is able to monitor the space targets of interest full-weather all-time, the space-based radar system is ut...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar for Space Observation: Systems, Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
8,123 Views
15 Pages

Radar HRRP Target Recognition Based on Stacked Autoencoder and Extreme Learning Machine

  • Feixiang Zhao,
  • Yongxiang Liu,
  • Kai Huo,
  • Shuanghui Zhang and
  • Zhongshuai Zhang

10 January 2018

A novel radar high-resolution range profile (HRRP) target recognition method based on a stacked autoencoder (SAE) and extreme learning machine (ELM) is presented in this paper. As a key component of deep structure, the SAE does not only learn feature...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,292 Views
23 Pages

Semantics- and Physics-Guided Generative Network for Radar HRRP Generalized Zero-Shot Recognition

  • Jiaqi Zhou,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Siyuan Mu,
  • Yuze Gao and ,
  • Feiming Wei and
  • Wenxian Yu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 December 2025

High-resolution range profile (HRRP) target recognition has garnered significant attention in radar automatic target recognition (RATR) research for its rich structural information and low computational costs. With the rapid advancements in deep lear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Image Processing Technologies and Applications for Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
364 Views
24 Pages

HRRP Reconstruction Method for Coded Interrupted Sampling Radar Echoes Based on Multi-Frame Sequential Priors

  • Ziai Zhang,
  • Qihua Wu,
  • Xiaobin Liu,
  • Zhaoyu Gu and ,
  • Shunping Xiao and
  • Feng Zhao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

21 August 2026

High-resolution range profile (HRRP) reconstruction is essential for extracting range-direction scattering characteristics in wideband radar remote sensing, particularly in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Imaging Radar Signal Processing, Target Feature Extraction and Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,466 Views
24 Pages

18 February 2021

For high-resolution range profile (HRRP)-based radar automatic target recognition (RATR), adequate training data are required to characterize a target signature effectively and get good recognition performance. However, collecting enough training dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,206 Views
22 Pages

6 November 2025

The precise reconstruction of target scattering centers (TSCs) using sensors plays a crucial role in feature extraction and identification of non-cooperative targets. Radar sensor networks (RSNs) are well suited for this task, as they are capable of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Vision Recognition and Communication Sensing System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,383 Views
18 Pages

10 November 2025

Radar space target recognition is faced with inherent challenges due to complex electromagnetic scattering properties and limited training samples. Conventional single-modality approaches cannot fully characterize targets due to information incomplet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition: Challenges and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,155 Views
14 Pages

23 April 2023

Aiming at the limitations of a single High Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) in recognition, this paper proposes a Time step Correlation-based Feature Fusion (TCFF) method. This method calculates the covariance matrix at the time step of the two featur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
399 Views
33 Pages

Multi-Target Tracking with HRRP-Aided Classification for Space-Based Radar Networks: An Enhanced Hybrid MF-BP Approach

  • Gaoyu Zhou,
  • Jie Lian,
  • Dengliang Qi,
  • Shuling Jin and ,
  • Yuxiang Shu,
  • Shuangshuang Zhu and
  • Zengfu Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2026

Data association for space-based radar multi-target tracking is a significant challenge in dense clutter and complex scenarios, often leading to tracking errors and target loss. This paper proposes a classification-aided message-passing algorithm for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Situational Awareness Using Space-Based Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,120 Views
14 Pages

26 November 2022

The stepped-frequency (SF) waveform is highly sensitive to the target motion, which induces range shift and echo spread in a high-range-resolution profile (HRRP). This paper proposes a method based on a cross-transmitted double-stepped frequency (DSF...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,874 Views
23 Pages

The importance of high resolution range profiles (HRRPs) for radar applications like tracking or classification is well known. In the scientific literature several approaches have been investigated to obtain HRRPs from wideband radar signals. Recent...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar and Aerospace)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,029 Views
19 Pages

Robust Automatic Target Recognition via HRRP Sequence Based on Scatterer Matching

  • Yuan Jiang,
  • Yang Li,
  • Jinjian Cai,
  • Yanhua Wang and
  • Jia Xu

14 February 2018

High resolution range profile (HRRP) plays an important role in wideband radar automatic target recognition (ATR). In order to alleviate the sensitivity to clutter and target aspect, employing a sequence of HRRP is a promising approach to enhance the...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,879 Views
25 Pages

17 March 2020

This paper deals with joint tracking and classification (JTC) of multiple targets based on scattering center model (SCM) and wideband radar observations. We first introduce an SCM-based JTC method, where the SCM is used to generate the predicted high...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Target Tracking Techniques for Modern Radar and Sonar Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,475 Views
20 Pages

30 March 2023

This article deals with the analysis of backscattering at automatic target recognition (ATR) by ground-based radar located on rough terrain surfaces, using the properties of wave polarization. The purpose of the study is to examine and compare linear...

(This article belongs to the Section Radar Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,892 Views
22 Pages

Generalized Zero-Shot Space Target Recognition Based on Global-Local Visual Feature Embedding Network

  • Yuanpeng Zhang,
  • Jingye Guan,
  • Haobo Wang,
  • Kaiming Li and ,
  • Ying Luo and
  • Qun Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

28 October 2023

Existing deep learning-based space target recognition methods rely on abundantly labeled samples and are not capable of recognizing samples from unseen classes without training. In this article, based on generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL), we prop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art and Future Developments: Short-Range Radar)
  • Article
  • Open Access
677 Views
29 Pages

26 August 2026

Aiming at limited measured HRRP samples of non-cooperative targets and severe distribution discrepancy between simulated and real echoes, this paper proposes CROF-Net, a robust cross-domain few-shot recognition framework for complex electromagnetic e...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,081 Views
20 Pages

15 August 2025

The efficient utilization of structural information in High-Range Resolution Profiles (HRRPs) is of great significance for improving recognition performance. This paper proposes a size estimation method based on L1-norm variable fractional-order grad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Target Detection, Imaging and Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,396 Views
22 Pages

8 May 2014

Compressed sensing has been applied to achieve high resolution range profiles (HRRPs) using a stepped-frequency radar. In this new scheme, much fewer pulses are required to recover the target’s strong scattering centers, which can greatly reduce the...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,247 Views
22 Pages

4 April 2025

The high-precision estimation of multi-dimensional parameters for spatial targets based on high-resolution range profiles is crucial for target recognition. However, existing estimation methods face difficulties in resolving the strong coupling betwe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,070 Views
25 Pages

9 November 2023

High-resolution range profile (HRRP), characterized by its high availability and rich target structural information, has been extensively studied. However, HRRP-based target recognition methods using closed datasets exhibit limitations when it comes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing and Machine Learning of Signal and Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,780 Views
24 Pages

A Deep Learning-Based Satellite Target Recognition Method Using Radar Data

  • Wang Lu,
  • Yasheng Zhang,
  • Can Xu,
  • Caiyong Lin and
  • Yurong Huo

29 April 2019

A novel satellite target recognition method based on radar data partition and deep learning techniques is proposed in this paper. For the radar satellite recognition task, orbital altitude is introduced as a distinct and accessible feature to divide...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)

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