Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g. – Radar ew
Patent
1994-01-27
1995-03-07
Sotomayor, John B.
Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,
Radar ew
342196, G01S 740
Patent
active
053962508
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is a method to extract the periodic properties (or Pulse Repetition Intervals (PRIs)) of radar signals whose time-of-arrival at an airborne platform have been time tagged by an Electronic Warfare (EW) receiver. The PRIs are determined using a modified Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) written as ##EQU1## where k represents the frequency components, the T.sub.i are the individual Time-Of-Arrival (TOA) data values and N is the last TOA value collected.
Disclosed are three possible methods of reducing the number of computations involved with the modification of the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) equation to facilitate its use with Radar Time-Of-Arrival (TOA) to extract periodic properties of radar signals. This is particularly applicable to radar pulse trains which are interleaved in time and where each individual pulse train may be staggered or jittered in time so that a time domain deinterleaving scheme must be employed. A spectral estimator can be computed by taking the modulus of the DFT of the time series data and extending the periodogram estimator by making a slight modification of the DFT equation.
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Sharpin David L.
Shaw Rudy L.
Tsui James B. Y.
Franz Bernard E.
Kundert Thomas L.
Sotomayor John B.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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