A Detection and Parameter Estimation Method of Multicomponent LFM Signals Based on Reassigned S-Hough Transform

LFM signals are widely used in the fields of radar and communication etc., which make signals detection and parameters estimation a very important technology in multicomponent LFM signals. To solve the problems of error detection caused by the cross-terms in WVD-Hough methods and other modified WVD distribution methods, and low parameter estimation precision due to poor timefrequency concentration in S-Hough transform, this paper proposed a detection and parameter estimation algorithm of multicomponent LFM signals based on reassigned generalized S-transform and Hough transform. Firstly calculate the time-frequency distribution of multicomponent LFM signals by generalized S-transform. Secondly reassign the S-transform time-frequency distribution to improve the time-frequency concentration property. Finally implement signal detection and parameter estimation by Hough transform to the reassigned S-transform TFD. The simulation results show that this algorithm has good performance in detecting multicomponent LFM signals and estimating the parameters in low SNR case.