Abstract
The acceleration will defocus the radar echo energy and reduce the
signal to noise ratio. Second-order Wigner-Ville Distribution
(SoWVD)-based detection method can estimate the accelerate speed and
achieve higher detection performance. However, SoWVD suffer from huge
computational burden for the computation of symmetric autocorrelation
function. Comprehensively considering the operation process of SoWVD and
defining an improved autocorrelation function, a frequency method for
the fast implementation of SoWVD is proposed in this paper. The proposed
algorithm reduces the computational complexity of SoWVD by one order of
magnitude, and does not change the anti-noise performance of the
algorithm.