摘要:
The invention relates to a process for adapting the post integration in a switched pulse repetition frequency radar and a circuit implementing this process. For that, the post integration of the detected signals is effected as a function of the signal received from the Doppler filter. For that, switches are used controlled by comparator circuits.The invention is useful in frequency ambiguous coherent Doppler radars using recurrence frequency switching by blocks.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for reducing the peak to peak-sidelobe ratio of the compressed pulse output signal of a symmetrical frequency derived phase coded pulse expander-compressor. The apparatus includes a bandwidth limiting device connected to the output of a symmetrical frequency derived phase coded pulse expander-compressor.
摘要:
A constant false alarm rate is achieved in a moving-target-indicator radary controlling the threshold in doppler channels according to the level of clutter in range gates near the range rate being examined for the presence of a target. Processing is simplified by using analog signals in charge coupled devices for target detection.
摘要:
Information about air turbulence and wind shear can be obtained by analyzing the fluctuation of the envelope, at the detector output of a pulse radar, of backscatter from hydrometeors which trace the wind field. Further, under some conditions, radar returns can be identified as being backscatter from weather targets or from the ground or sea. The detector output signal is quantized into one of several class intervals whose boundaries, in mid-range, are in the same ratio. Consecutive radar returns from scatterers at the same nominal range and scan angle are quantized into either the same or different class intervals. The ratio of the number of consecutive quantizations that are different to the number of trials is a measure of the variance of relative velocities at that range and scan angle. This technique permits economical implementation of a plan position display of, for example, the expected severity of turbulence or wind shear at each increment of range and azimuth angle since duplication of circuits is not required.
摘要:
A target detecting and ranging system of the type transmitting search pulses and receiving echo pulses is disclosed. The system employs an input receiver receiving return signals and feeds them to an extracting circuit, a gate and cancellation circuit. The extracting circuit, functions to supply an input to the gate of signals containing relevant information such that gate output is only irrelevant information. The cancellation circuit, receiving the gate output and the return signals, eliminates irrelevant signals by mutual cancellation. The circuit for extracting relevant signals comprises in one embodiment a differentiator, analog store and parallel adder with a shaping circuit, clipping the output below a threshold level. Digital implementation is also discribed. The differentiator may also be replaced by a compression circuit. In a second embodiment of the system an integrator is interposed between the gate and the cancellation circuit. The integrator has a long time constant for short duration return pulses, that is containing relevant data and a short time constant for long duration pulses and functions to improve shaping of the irrelevant signals supplied to the cancellation circuit. The output of the cancellation circuit to both embodiments is fed to an amplifier and then to a display device.
摘要:
Pulse measurement of chirped radar returns is made before dechirping by these of a linear detector averaging circuits and time delay circuits such that the measurement is indicative of the RMS power of the pulse. Depending on the received chirp pulse different averaging circuits and time delay circuits are switched in so that its output is coincidental with the delayed dechirped signal. Output is encoded for a digital indication of the power and is fed through scalers to set the threshold of the video signal processor.
摘要:
Pulse radar apparatus capable to generate cyclically a train of transmitter pulses with interpulse periods T1, T2, T1 + Delta T and T2 + Delta T. This apparatus comprises successively a receiver, a digital double canceller with a periodic shift time equalling the smallest interpulse period, a digital-to-analogue converter, a standard-pulse generator, a digital delay-line integrator with said periodic shift time, two parallel-connected branches meeting at a gate circuit, one branch comprising, successively, a first comparator and a correlator, and the other branch a second comparator and a delay element with a delay time of Delta T. The threshold level of the first comparator is maximally equal to that of the second comparator. On the receipt of each two sequential video signals with an interval Delta T the correlator causes that the gate circuit blocks the access to a PPI for the corresponding video signals supplied via the delay element.
摘要:
A programmable pseudorandom PRF generator for generating allowable combinations of PRF and jitter percent comprising a program selector means for inspecting the output of the selector for unwanted codes and a 20-bit pseudorandom generator for generating an output pulse having an allowed combination of PRF and jitter percent such that the output pulse, when jittered, has the same average frequency as the unjittered pulse.
摘要:
A system for polyphase encoding transmitted pulses of energy and for decog the received signals to enhance returns from the range interval being examined during a particular processing period and attenuate returns from contiguous range intervals (pulse compression). The system includes a decoding device which comprises a delay circuit having N distributed outputs including its input for producing a uniform delay between adjacent outputs corresponding to N inputted elements of a received phase-coded signal of length N.sup.2 ; a conjugator circuit coupled to the first N/2 successive outputs of the delay circuit; a first signal-combining circuit coupled to the conjugator circuit and to the last N/2 successive outputs of the delay circuit; a multiplier circuit coupled to the first signal-combining circuit; and a second signal-combining circuit coupled to the multiplier circuit. The decoding device provides a decoding phase shift -.DELTA..phi..sub.k,p to the signal elements of the phase-coded signal wherein.DELTA..phi..sub.k,p =-(2.pi./N)[k-(1/2)(N-1)][p-(1/2)(N-1)]is the phase of the pth code element in the kth subgroup and k=0,1,2, . . . , N-1 and p=0,1,2, . . . , N-1, with N an even integer, and thereafter adds the phase-shifted signal elements at the same time to produce a narrow pulse with an accompanying increase in effective peak signal.
摘要:
A low PRF pulse doppler radar system utilizing a VIP digital filter bank signal processor to suppress echoes from terrain, rain, and chaff, and pass echoes from aircraft moving at higher speeds is disclosed.Each of a plurality of VIP filters individually provides high attenuation to undesired signals over designated frequency bands, the width of which are a large fraction of 1/T.sub.av where T.sub.av is the average interpulse period. Little or no attenuation of desired signals having doppler frequencies greater than 1/T.sub.av occurs. The outputs of the plurality of filters are desensitized to prevent false alarm from clutter, and the presence of a desired radar pulse echo is determined by a comparison with a threshold level.