Method for compensating for the movement of the antenna for a sonar
US5428581A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 18, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jun 27, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 18, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S367/904
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The invention relates to towed sonars. It consists in compensating electronically for the movement of the antenna in order to suppress the Doppler shift of the fixed echoes. In order to do that in a towed linear antenna (203) comprising N sensors (205), M (M<N) successive sensors are selected which are switched electronically in order to make them travel synthetically over the antenna in the direction opposite to the movement of the latter at a speed equal to twice the forward speed of the antenna. In order not to have too large a number of physical sensors, the signals from the latter are interpolated in order to obtain synthetic sensors which are sufficient in number to reduce the increment of the movement of the synthetic sub-antenna in such a way as to suppress the parasitic lobes due to the incremental nature of this movement. It makes it possible to increase the sensitivity of sonars without increasing their power. FIG. 2.
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