Waveform-Diverse Sensors

Abstract

The electromagnetic spectrum has become increasingly crowded in recent years as a result of the demand for higher bandwidths for greater communication throughput and finer resolution radar imaging. Thus efficient use of bandwidth is essential to meet the needs of a wide variety of technological disciplines. For radar applications perhaps the greatest challenges to attaining high spectral efficiency are the need for spectrally clean emissions that minimize the out-of-band interference and the complementary need for advanced receiver designs to enable the separation and processing of multiple radar and communications signals that mutually interfere with one another. In essence, instead of dealing with interference as simply a deleterious effect, it can be exploited as additional sources of information without the requirement of additional bandwidth. This 'waveform diverse' perspective is used to facilitate numerous performance enhancements and new operating modes for sensing.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA511447

Entities

People

  • Shannon D. Blunt

Organizations

  • University of Kansas

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Angle Of Arrival
  • Bandwidth
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dimensionality Reduction
  • Doppler Effect
  • Efficiency
  • Electromagnetic Spectra
  • Frequency
  • Imaging Techniques
  • Matched Filters
  • Multistatic Radar
  • Pulse Compression
  • Radar
  • Radar Imaging
  • Spectra

Readers

  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Systems Analysis and Design