Waveform-Agile Sensing: Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract

Continuing advances in device technologies are producing active sources that are increasingly agile in their waveform transmission capabilities. Additionally, modern receivers are generally designed to support adaptive processing. This combination presents rich opportunities for new sensing methodologies that exploit agility of both transmitter and receiver to yield improved performance in such applications as detection, classification, and tracking. This paper outlines some of these opportunities and sketches some challenges entailed in realizing these opportunities and approaches being brought to bear on these challenges.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA436063

Entities

People

  • Douglas Cochran

Organizations

  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acoustic Detection
  • Arrays
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Families (Human)
  • Frequency
  • Lasers
  • Materials
  • Optical Detection
  • Optical Modulators
  • Radio Frequency
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Signal Processing
  • Transmitters
  • Waveforms

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design