A Technique for Improving the Clutter Performance of Coherent Pulse Train Signals

1 November 1967

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Vol. AES-3 (6) , 898-906
https://doi.org/10.1109/taes.1967.5408661

Abstract

The clutter performance of a radar using coherent pulse train signls depends upon the phase and amplitude weighting used on transmit and receive. This paper describes an iterative technique to determine better weightings. Each iteration improves the signal-to-interference ratio, where the interference is the sum of the mean square noise voltage and the mean square clutter voltage at the time of peak signal. Two examples are presented to illustrate the method and to demonstrate that in many cases the procedure will yield weightings that may be used in a system where the transmitter permits no amplitude weighting.

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Clutter Suppression by Complex Weighting of Coherent Pulse Trains
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 1966
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