Title :
Efficiency of pulse and FMCW radar under condition of the sea clutter impact
Author :
Khlopov, Grygoriy ; Knoechel, Reinhard ; Stellmach, Wilhelm ; Teplyuk, Alexander
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Radio-Phys. & Electron., Kharkov, Ukraine
Abstract :
The comparison of the signal-to-clutter ratio for small targets against the background of a rough sea surface is performed for FMCW and pulse radar. It is shown that due to leakage of a clutter through side lobes of ambiguity function, the efficiency of the FMCW is noticeably worse than for the pulse radar which receives distributed clutter from a rough sea surface only within a resolution cell.
Keywords :
CW radar; FM radar; radar clutter; radar signal processing; FMCW radar; ambiguity function; pulse efficiency; pulse radar; resolution cell; rough sea surface; sea clutter impact; signal-to-clutter ratio; Clutter; Radar clutter; Radar cross section; Rough surfaces; Sea surface; Surface roughness; FMCW radar; Pulse radar; clutter; radar cross-section; rough sea surface; target;
Conference_Titel :
Microwave Conference (GeMiC), 2012 The 7th German
Conference_Location :
Ilmenau
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2096-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-3-9812668-4-9
