A novel pulse TOA analysis technique for radar identification

Author

Ray, P.S.

Author_Institution

Electron. Warfare Div., Defence Sci. & Technol. Organ., Salisbury, SA, Australia

Volume

34

Issue

3

fYear

1998

fDate

7/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

716

Lastpage

721

Abstract

A new processing technique is presented for identifying individual pulse trains in a buffer load of pulse time-of-arrival (TOA) data from radar warning receiver sets currently in use for electronic warfare (EW). The method is based on the numerical characteristics of the matrix of the differences of the TOA data points. In particular, for a uniform pulse repetition interval (PRI) emitter, this matrix is a symmetrical harmonic Toeplitz matrix the inverse of which has banded tridiagonal form. This form leads to an estimator for the PRI in terms of the trace of the inverted matrix

Keywords

Toeplitz matrices; computational complexity; electronic countermeasures; inverse problems; military computing; radar computing; radar detection; radar signal processing; Gaussian jittered pulse train; Gaussian noise; TOA data points; algorithm computational complexity; banded tridiagonal form; buffer load; deinterleaving; electronic support measure receivers; electronic warfare; histogramming; individual pulse trains; inverted matrix; matrix of differences; missing pulses case; pulse time-of-arrival data; radar identification; radar warning receiver sets; staggered pulse train; symmetrical harmonic Toeplitz matrix; uniform pulse repetition interval emitter; Australia; Electronic warfare; Frequency measurement; Libraries; Matrix decomposition; Radar; Signal processing algorithms; Sorting; Symmetric matrices; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9251

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/7.705881

Filename

705881