Digital Beamforming and Pulse Compression in an Adaptive Array Radar System

Abstract

New digital techniques for forming antenna beam patterns and matched filtering of radar waveforms are investigated and compared to the traditional analog methods. The development at NRL of an integrated digital processor for performing both adaptive beamforming and pulse compression is presented along with performance data obtained from experiments performed in the Adaptive Processing Laboratory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 25, 1991
Accession Number
ADA232713

Entities

People

  • Frederick W. Lee
  • M. Burroughs

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Compressors
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Acquisition
  • Decoding
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Filters
  • Filtration
  • Frequency
  • Laboratory Equipment
  • Modulators
  • Oscillators
  • Pulse Compression
  • Radar
  • Signal Generators
  • Surface Acoustic Waves
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.