The invention discloses a
passive radar system for the switching among
multiple antenna arrays. The
system comprises a plurality of array antennas, and the combined airspace coverage orientation of the array antennas is 360 degrees. A multi-channel
radio frequency switching device selects one array antenna in a
fixed time period according to the
time sequence, and sends signals received by the array antenna to a multi-channel
superheterodyne receiver. In this way, multiple channels of radio-frequency signals are converted to fixed intermediate-frequency signals. After that, the intermediate-frequency signals are sent to a multi-channel AD acquisition and preprocessing sub-
machine, so that the AD acquisition and the digital down-conversion of the intermediate-frequency analog signals are completed. After that, the
clutter suppression, the target detection, the positioning and the tracking are conducted by a high-speed parallel
digital signal processing machine. By adopting the
system, aplurality of antenna arrays are switched to take turn and run according to a certain
time sequence, so that the orientation360-degree airspace coverage of the
passive radar system is realized. Compared with a traditional circular array antenna, the antenna
side lobe is low, and the
clutter suppression capability is high. Meanwhile, the low-altitude target detection capability is high, and the cost of the system can be effectively controlled.