Methods to reduce range glint in radars

Author

Hamner, Chris A. ; Maier, Mark W.

Author_Institution

Res. Dev. & Eng. Center, US Army Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL, USA

Volume

3

fYear

1997

fDate

1-8 Feb 1997

Firstpage

83

Abstract

The topic of this paper is the investigation of methods to reduce target range glint in pulsed radar systems. To characterize and explore the range glint phenomenon, mathematical expressions of candidate frequency diversity HRR waveforms, range distributed target models, and range centroid estimation were developed using computer modeling to simulate target range glint. Error analysis/comparison of the statistical output of these candidate frequency diversity HRR waveform models illustrated their relative abilities to reduce range glint

Keywords

data compression; error analysis; interference suppression; radar interference; radar signal processing; radar target recognition; waveform analysis; computer modeling; error analysis; frequency diversity HRR waveforms; mathematical expressions; radars; range centroid estimation; range distributed target models; range glint; statistical output; target range glint; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Doppler radar; Fluctuations; Frequency diversity; Mathematical model; Pulse measurements; Radar scattering; Radar tracking; Spatial resolution;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 1997. Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

Snowmass at Aspen, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3741-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.1997.574854

Filename

574854