Intermittent Clutter Removal Approach for Wind Profiler Data Based on Fractional Fourier Transform

Through the analysis of the target characteristics and according to the intermittent clutter bursting and short duration characteristics, a new method for the clutter recognition based on the fractional Fourier transform (FRFT) is proposed. This method is predicated on the fact that the FRFT perfectly localizes a chirp signal as an impulse when the angle parameter of the transform matches the chirp rate of the chirp signal. The method involves detecting the presence of the intermittent clutter and correctly estimating its orientation in the time-frequency plane, removing the intermittent clutter in the fractional domain, and completing wind estimation by the power spectrum. By testing the artificial WPR-like signal and data measured from the field, we verify that the FRFT-based method is very effective.