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Pulse doppler measuring apparatus

US5109858A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateFeb 4, 1991
Grant dateMay 5, 1992
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Expiry dateFeb 4, 2011

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S15/584
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

The present invention relates to a pulse Doppler measuring apparatus using the so-called acceleration method. In order to prevent production of a secondary aliasing (where a phase vector is subjected to an aliasing), the apparatus is provided with an MTI filter, which decomposes a first phase vector of a reflected wave obtained by mixing a reflection signal with a reference signal into a real part and an imaginary part, obtains a first regression line for variations of each of the parts and extracts a second phase vector corresponding only to the high frequency component of the reflected wave by calculating differences of the real part and the imaginary part from the first regression line; and/or an angular component .DELTA..theta. of the phase difference vector is obtained; a second regression line is obtained for this phase difference angle .DELTA..theta.; and the phase difference angle .DELTA..theta. is corrected by using this second regression line, to prevent the production of a secondary aliasing.

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