One-bit splitting deceptive jamming against SAR

Abstract One-bit quantization is a promising technique due to its performance retention and complexity reduction in a deceptive jammer against synthetic aperture radar (SAR). In this paper, the 1-bit quantization technology is utilized to agilely generate split false targets in the SAR imagery once the radar signal is intercepted, which reduces the complexity of the jammer significantly with guaranteed focusing quality. A single-frequency threshold is used to decompose harmonics incurred by the 1-bit quantization, and its parameters are adjusted through different pulse repetition intervals to provide steerable modulations. In this way, the SAR signal is split into coupled false scatterers during the 1-bit interception. By further deploying amplitude, time-delay, and Doppler frequency modulations on the 1-bit intercepted signal, the split false targets are created. The proposed approach is compared with different deceptive jamming methods to show its validity in effectiveness and cost, and numerical experiments are also presented for verification.