A Novel Approach for Spaceborne SAR Scattered-Wave Deception Jamming Using Frequency Diverse Array

Abstract

In this letter, we propose a scattered-wave deceptive jamming approach using a frequency diverse array (FDA) radar against spaceborne synthetic aperture radars (SARs). As an emerging array radar, FDA transmits multiple carrier frequencies across its elements, and thus, a multiple deceptive jamming is potentially produced in the range dimension of the SAR image. Moreover, we consider the scattered-wave jamming, since it has low complexity when used to create spurious scenes and control the jammer locations. The theoretical analysis and numerical simulations show that the scattered-wave jamming with FDA can generate multiple fake targets with the number of targets being dependent on the number of FDA carrier frequencies.