Performance of an automated radar target discrimination scheme using E pulses and S pulses

Author

Ilavarasan, Ponniah ; Ross, John E. ; Rothwell, Edward J. ; Chen, Kun-Mu ; Nyquist, Dennis P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA

Volume

41

Issue

5

fYear

1993

fDate

5/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

582

Lastpage

588

Abstract

Previous studies have demonstrated the viability of natural resonance based target discrimination using extinction pulses (E pulses) and single-mode pulses (S pulses). These studies qualitatively demonstrated the principles of resonance annihilation by forcing the interrogating pulse to have zeros at the complex natural resonance frequencies of the target. Here a quantitative scheme for evaluating discrimination using the E pulse and the S pulse is given. The performance of an automated E-pulse and S-pulse discrimination scheme is evaluated using numerically derived scattering data with varying amounts of noise

Keywords

radar theory; E pulses; S pulses; automated radar target discrimination; extinction pulses; numerically derived scattering data; resonance annihilation; single-mode pulses; Additive noise; Convolution; Damping; Inspection; Polarization; Radar scattering; Resonance; Resonant frequency; Sea measurements; Wire;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-926X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/8.222277

Filename

222277