Title :
Effect of envelope limiting in pulse-compression moving-target-indicator radar systems
Author :
Thorsteinson, C.M. ; Haykin, S.S. ; De Buda, R.
Author_Institution :
McMaster University, Communications Research Laboratory and the Department of Electrical Engineering, Hamilton, Canada
fDate :
10/1/1972 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Computer simulations are used to study the effect of envelope limiting on the performance of pulse-compression moving-target-indicator (m.t.i.) radar in the presence of clutter produced by stationary reflectors and nonstationary reflectors. It is shown that the use of pre-envelope concepts to deal with bandpass processes as complex lowpass envelopes enables efficient use to be made of high-speed fixed-point-computer fast-Fourier-transform (f.f.t.) techniques to investigate difficult nonlinear-radar-system problems.
Keywords :
computer applications; electronics applications of computers; fast Fourier transforms; radar; radar clutter; radar receivers; radar systems; simulation; clutter; computer simulations; envelope limiting; fast Fourier transform; nonstationary reflectors; pulse compression moving target indicator radar systems; stationary reflectors;
Journal_Title :
Electrical Engineers, Proceedings of the Institution of
DOI :
10.1049/piee.1972.0289
