Digital Doppler Processing Using Walsh and Quantized Fourier Transforms

Abstract

The use of Walsh and Fourier transforms to synthesize banks of contiguous doppler filters is examined in considerable detail for 32-point transforms and in less detail for 256-point transforms. It is found that the use of Walsh or hard-limited Fourier transforms results in the introduction of numerous large spurious sidelobes or artifacts in the filter responses, and that these artifacts are essentially unaffected by input signal amplitude tapering. It is shown how the artifacts may be reduced in size and number by increasing the number of quantization levels in the Fourier transform.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1974
Accession Number
ADA006116

Entities

People

  • J. L. Ekstrom

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Artifacts
  • Databases
  • Frequency
  • Intervals
  • Observation
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Sampling
  • Sidelobes
  • Signal Processing
  • Square Waves
  • Targets
  • Time Intervals
  • Universities
  • Walsh Functions
  • Waveforms
  • Waves

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

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