Patent attributes
A new radar is disclosed possessing desirable attributes for close range, short event time, high data rate sensing and data collection applications. A Continuous Wave (CW) or very high Pulse Repetition Frequency (PRF) Pulse based waveform, nominally with very high duty cycle (i.e. highly range aliased), is amplified and transmitted from one antenna, and after reflection from targets of interest, is received by one or a plurality of receive antennas. Both transmit and receive are optimally synchronous and phase coherent. The received signals are down converted to baseband leaving only the Doppler frequency from the targets of interest. These Doppler frequencies change over Fast Time as a function of the specific target trajectory and speed. A bank of time dependent correlation filters, each tuned to a different trajectory hypothesis, are used to integrate up the Doppler Signal for targets traveling the hypothesized trajectory, and decorrelated those that are not.
