Lockheed Martin Corporation

Jonathan Fischi

Peter H Stockmann

A method of compensating for transmitter instability of a radar system is provided. The method includes the steps of transmitting at least one electromagnetic pulse and directly measuring at least one characteristic of the transmitted pulse. A comparison is made between the at least one measured characteristic of the transmitted pulse to a reference pulse characteristic. The results of this comparison are used to generate a complex weight for the at least one electromagnetic pulse. The weight is applied to the received return of the at least one electromagnetic pulse.

Transmitter pushing compensation for radar stability enhancement

A method and system for suppressing unwanted signals when detecting objects of interest in a detection system comprising an antenna system and two or more receive beams. A background map is created by range, azimuth and Doppler. Locations within the residual clutter in the moving Doppler bins are selected for nulling. Adaptive nulling is performed independently on each Doppler bin of the selected location to enable Doppler-specific spatial nulling for the same range and azimuth bin.

Digital clutter spatial nulling

A radar array antenna comprising: a plurality of analog to digital (A/D) converters for converting analog signals from the array to digital signals, the signals supplying input to one or more optical modulators having controllable wavelengths, each optical modulator connected to a corresponding multiplexer, the multiplexer providing outputs to a demultiplexer that distributes the signals to a beamformer.

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Fayetteville, NY, United States of America

Jonathan Fischi