Ultra wide band coherent radar system optimising the radio interference discrimination capability
US6072420A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 2, 1998 |
| Grant date | Jun 6, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 2, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S13/90
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The present invention relates to an ultra wide band coherent radar system assessing the Doppler shift of the returned radar echoes, which radar system optimises the radio interference discrimination capability. The radar system comprises a control unit by which the transmit-receive process is partitioned into a number of consecutive sub-processes each of which consists of transmission followed by reception of a signal having a relative bandwidth of a fraction of an octave and where the received signals from the different narrow band transmissions are used to reconstruct broad band radar data by pulse compression techniques. Further, the control unit is arranged to determine the recurrence time, i.e. the time lapse between two consecutive transmissions, of a narrow band signal for a certain frequency step to be approximately inversely proportional to the frequency of this step and higher or equal to the Nyquist rate with respect to the Doppler bandwidth at this frequency.
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