ELIMINATING RADAR AMBIGUITIES BY PROCESSING STAGGERED PULSE TRAINS OR SPECTRA.

Abstract

A method for reducing or eliminating doppler and/or range ambiguities ordinarily associated with using repetitive waveforms in radar has been developed. The basic idea calls for building two radar systems into one. Two different waveforms are impressed on one carrier, the waveforms being designed in such a fashion that they can be separated and processed in different receiver channels. The combined information of the two processed signals is used to reduce or to eliminate ambiguities. Analog computation has been used to study the feasibility of generating and processing the proposed waveforms. A new method for measuring small frequency shifts is suggested. A pair of pulses is used; the first and the second pulse will produce ringing at the outputs of a first and a second narrowband filter, respectively, and the relative phase of the ringing oscillations is shown to be linearly related to the difference between the carrier frequency and the filter center frequency. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 19, 1968
Accession Number
AD0667455

Entities

People

  • H. H. Woerrlein

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ambiguity
  • Carrier Frequencies
  • Computations
  • Doppler Effect
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Shift
  • Narrowband
  • Oscillation
  • Radar
  • Spectra
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.