High Resolution Target Classification for the SQS-26 Sonar Equipment

Abstract

This report is concerned with the mechanization of the SQS-26 Sonar Equipment to provide the facility for target classification with the high range resolution scattering clue. High range resolution can provide an effective means for rapidly classifying sonar targets. Considerable information about the physical properties of sonar targets can be obtained from the facility for comparing the signal strengths received from closely spaced range cells. The regularity of large surfaces on submarines will produce a high degree of correlation of their back scattered signal amplitudes from adjacent high resolution range cells. The random distribution of the discrete scatterers in a fish school will produce decorrelation between their back scattered signals.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 11, 1963
Accession Number
ADA071187

Entities

People

  • Richard E. Baker

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude
  • Analyzers
  • Data Processing
  • Detection
  • Digital Data
  • Dynamic Range
  • Frequency
  • Gray Scale
  • High Resolution
  • Physical Properties
  • Processing Equipment
  • Pulse Compression
  • Scattering
  • Sonar Equipment
  • Sonar Targets
  • Spectrum Analyzers
  • Target Classification

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Acoustical Oceanography.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects