滑动聚束SAR步进扫描影响分析

滑动聚束SAR系统在实际工作中通过步进扫描的方式来实现天线照射波束在方位向的扫描,然而该扫描方式会在滑动聚束SAR的成像结果中引入成对回波。为分析该成对回波的形成物理机制,建立滑动聚束SAR步进扫描的数学模型,通过泰勒展开和傅里叶级数分析具体解释了成对回波的成因,并给出了成对回波幅度及位置与步进脉冲控制数之间的定量关系。理论分析和信号仿真结果表明,该模型能够准确有效地解释这一现象,并可为滑动聚束SAR的波束扫描系统参数设计提供理论依据。     

非正弦波SAR的方位向分辨力

为研究非正弦波SAR的方位向分辨力 ,从波束形成的角度分析了非正弦波SAR的方位向聚焦原理 ,导出了基于矩形脉冲和高斯脉冲的合成孔径天线阵列方向图表达式 ,并与常规窄带SAR进行比较 ,指出影响非正弦波SAR方位向分辨力的主要因素为合成孔径长度和信号带宽 ,而与信号载频无关。     

方位多相位中心SAR信号重建误差分析

就方位多相位中心(Azimuth Multiple-Phase-Center,AMPC)合成孔径雷达(Synthetic Aperture Radar,SAR)系统的阵列误差对信号重建性能的影响进行分析。将阵列误差建模为随机过程,结合最小二乘(Least-Square,LS)算法,推导了AMPC SAR误差功率谱的解析表达式,进而得到了AMPC SAR的信噪比与方位模糊比的解析表达式。仿真实验验证了理论分析的正确性。分析指出,随着系统脉冲重复频率的升高,有必要通过减小重建系数以实现重建性能的提升。分析方法与结果对AMPC SAR系统设计以及图像质量预估提供有效支撑。     

基于微动调制的SAR新型复合有源干扰方法

在静态虚假目标的基础上,利用有源运动调制干扰原理,提出了一种基于微动调制的SAR新型复合有源干扰方法。建立了基于微动调制的复合有源干扰信号模型,详细分析了该干扰信号对SAR的干扰效果,确定了各调制系数,最后进行了基于实测数据的仿真实验。结果表明,该方法具有距离向相干处理和方位向部分相干处理的特点,可对SAR在方位向上实现多个匀(加)速虚假运动目标的欺骗干扰效果。     

基于FRFT的FMCW SAR成像

调频连续波合成孔径雷达(FMCW SAR)结合调频连续波与合成孔径成像技术,具有体积小、重量轻、成本低、分辨率高等一系列优点,是新近提出来的一种成像雷达体制。由于FMCW SAR的差频信号在方位向可以转化为调频信号,据此提出了一种基于分数阶傅立叶变换(FRFT)的FMCW SAR成像算法。仿真结果表明,该算法与RD算法相比较,方位向主瓣压缩和旁瓣抑制效果非常明显。     

冲激SAR成像的分辨率估计

后向投影 (BP)算法是一种被广泛应用于冲激SAR的成像算法。当冲激SAR的发射信号是某一类冲激信号时 ,根据冲激SAR成像的特点 ,推导出BP算法的方位分辨率与成像积累角、信号中心频率的关系。仿真结果表明 ,在相当范围内 ,估计公式都是准确的     

星载双基地SAR系统模糊性

针对星载双基地SAR由双基地几何关系引入的新问题,提出了计算其模糊比的新方法和近似分解方法。利用此方法通过仿真计算对星载双基地SAR模糊性变化规律做了进一步研究。结果表明,因接收天线的面积限制,与其伴随飞行的大卫星SAR相比,模糊性问题更为严重,但变化规律基本一致。比较而言,由于小卫星天线尺寸在高度上更接近大卫星天线,在距离模糊比上相对大卫星SAR抬高得不多,而在方位模糊比上抬高较大。     

主星带伴随微小卫星编队SAR系统的空间分辨率分析

根据主星带伴随微小卫星编队SAR系统的结构特点,建立了双站SAR系统的几何模型,然后推导分析了距离分辨率和方位向分辨率的解析表达式,最后仿真分析了以ENVISAT作为主星、"干涉车轮"的距离分辨率和方位向分辨率随主星到编队小卫星的距离、相对轨道高度的变化情况,并且与主星SAR的分辨率进行了比较。结果表明:(1)空间分辨率大小随波束入射角的变化基本上与主星一致;(2)空间分辨率随主星与伴随小卫星的距离增大而增大;(3)空间分辨率之差随微小卫星相对椭圆轨道短轴的增加而增加。     

星载双站SAR采用距离-多普勒算法的保相成像

星载双站合成孔径雷达(SAR)的成像可以采用距离-多普勒(RD)算法.算法的距离模型可使用二次模型和直线模型,针对系统双站的特点,讨论了高精度距离模型参数的求取方法.传统RD算法采用二次模型,在斜视情况下,二次模型可能会有较大误差,主要是会影响方位向压缩,因此讨论采用直线模型对应的方位压缩因子进行成像,从而改善方位向旁瓣.成像中为了使算法能够保相,需采用合适的方位向压缩因子,使其不破坏所成像的相位信息.     

直接探测型窄脉冲激光雷达扫描性能分析

针对脉冲激光雷达系统,通过对激光脉冲重叠方式的分析,确定了采用"五点式"重叠方式进行扫描。针对这种扫描方式,分析了方位和俯仰两个方向的扫描光束角步长,确定了对于确定探测空域的最短扫描时间,推导了反射镜在方位和俯仰两个方向的扫描速度以及两者之间的定量关系,给出了脉冲激光雷达扫描器方位扫描速度和俯仰扫描速度设计的理论依据。最后分析了激光器和机械扫描系统所引起的系统误差,并给出了解决方法。     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

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Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

Panjwai: a tale of two COINs in Afghanistan

The US Army has two approaches to counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan. One is hard, or combat-focused, and the other is soft, or development-focused. This study examines two US Army task forces deployed to Panjwai District, Afghanistan from 2012 to 2013. CTF 4-9 and 1-38 offer a meaningful comparison because they pursued these contrasting approaches among the same population and against the same enemy at the same time and place. The study compares each unit’s approach and finds that neither approach was successful absent the other. The article concludes by recommending further research into combining the approaches at the operational level.