Improvement of target resolvability through the application of phase-shift keying to quantized linear FM radar/sonar signals

Author

Donohoe, J. Patrick ; Ingels, Franklin M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

26-28 Mar 1989

Firstpage

141

Lastpage

144

Abstract

The ambiguity functions associated with three types of phase-encoded quantized linear FM (QLFM-PSK) signals are considered. The signals are classified according to their method of phase encoding. Significant range-Doppler sidelobe magnitude reduction is obtained when phase encoding is applied among the frequency subpulses of the QLFM-PSK signals. Application of phase encoding to each of the individual frequency subpulses is found to reduce the width of the ambiguity function sidelobe peaks

Keywords

encoding; frequency modulation; frequency shift keying; radar theory; signal processing; sonar; QLFM-PSK signals; ambiguity function sidelobe peaks; frequency subpulses; phase encoding; phase-shift keying; quantised linear FM signals; radar; radar theory; range-Doppler sidelobe magnitude reduction; signal processing; sonar; target resolvability; Chirp modulation; Doppler radar; Encoding; Frequency modulation; Phase shift keying; Pulse compression methods; Radar measurements; Signal design; Signal resolution; Sonar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 1989. Proceedings., Twenty-First Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tallahassee, FL

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-8186-1933-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.1989.72450

Filename

72450