The invention provides a high-frequency
radar target joint detection method using time-
frequency analysis and a constant
false alarm technology. Firstly,
radar echo signals are preprocessed to conveniently extract a time-frequency
ridge. The preprocessing process comprises the following steps: performing time-frequency representation on
radar echo signals, performing binarization
processing, performing
vertical projection on a
binary image, determining an approximate time-frequency
ridge extraction area, and extracting the time-frequency
ridge. After the time-frequency ridge is obtained, a
CFAR detector is used for carrying out first-stage detection on time-frequency points on the time-frequency ridge, whether the time-frequency points on the time-frequency ridge are target points or not is judged, then the number of the target points is accumulated, second-stage detection is carried out, and if the accumulation number reaches a second threshold
value set by a binary accumulation
algorithm, it is judged that the time-frequency ridge is a ship target.
Verification is carried out through actual radar data and AIS information, and under the condition of the same
false alarm rate, a union set of ship targets matched by TF-CFAR and CFAR methods is taken, so that the radar target matching number can be greatly improved, and the radar target detection probability is further improved.